COLOUR OF THE MOON.
• Some remarkable "snapshots" of tho moon have been shown at a meeting of the British Astronomical Association by, Mr F. J. Hargreavcs, who had elaborated a new way of photographing the moon in colour through the refracting telescope of the Headley Observatory (reports the '' Children's Newspaper'. 1 )- These natural colour photographs show that the general tint of. tho moon'a surface is .like that of dried, mud. But in. some of those large darker patches which wc can sec on tho moon, and which have been long but wrongly called seas, the colouring is brighter,. The Sea. of Tranquillity is olive green; the Sea of Serenity is brownish; and the Sea of Imbrium is mottled brown and olive green. There is one other sea, that of Aristarclius, which, from its yellowish tinge, is believed to have deposits of sulphur.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 13
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142COLOUR OF THE MOON. Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 13
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