The Feb 18 full moon in exaggerated color -- Photo by Ari Heinze.

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Here the moon is shown in approximately true, yet enormously exaggerated color -- the result of going wild with Photoshop's color saturation functions. The subtle color variations over the mostly-gray moon indicate differences in chemical composition of the rocks.

Date/Time	February 18, 2011, about 21:30 CST
Equipment	Home-built eight-inch F/5 Newtonian telescope plus Nikon D3000 DSLR
Settings	Telescope stopped to about F/20 using cardboard mask. Film speed set to 200 ISO. Exposure time 1/25 sec. White balance auto.
Image processing	Cropped, rotated, color-saturation enhanced in Adobe Photoshop, and resized for web to 1500 pix width.
Image dimensions before resizing	2318x1800
Focus	Fair: slight blurring can be seen in the full-resolution raw image.
Motion blur	Negligible
Image noise	Very noisy due to enormous increase in color saturation
Other technical comments	None.

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