Nice Word Art photos

A few nice word art images I found:

Tobi Hits CDs (MS Word Art), 1999

Image by tobimcfly
Was just throwing out old shit when I found theese 10 yr old beauties - My first CD compilations with MS Word Cover Art from 1999. :)

moon word art

Image by MarkGregory007
Moon words with a photo of a quarter moon shot through my telescope


Welcome To The Moon!
By Mark Mathosian

Copyrighted

“The moon is not robed in a smooth and polished surface but is....rough and uneven, covered everywhere, just like the earth’s surface, with huge prominences, deep valleys, and chasms.” Galileo, circa 1610

When astronomer Galileo Galilei turned his spyglass towards the heavens mankind began a systematic study of the moon. Today, the moon continues to be a favorite target for backyard astronomers. To make the most of your time at the eyepiece you should learn to recognize lunar features including the moon’s terminator, maria, terrae, craters, rilles and mountains.

Different lunar features become easier to see, more or less based upon the amount of sunlight reaching them. Too much sunlight and features are washed out, too little sunlight and details disappear. Experienced moon watchers and moon photographers know that the best detail is observed along a ragged imaginary line that separates the bright side of the moon from the dark side. This irregularly shaped line is called the terminator.

The terminator moves across the moon from east to west. Lunar features along the moon’s terminator provide a wonderful mix of topography and shadows, giving most features a three dimensional appearance. Mountains appear jagged, dried lava beds appear smooth and craters appear deep and cavernous.

The lowlands on the moon are referred to as Mare. Mare is a Latin word meaning sea and Maria, (pronounced MAR-ee-a) is the plural of mare. The moon’s lowlands are believed to be dried lava flows from erupting volcanoes during the moon’s earliest days of creation. To ancient astronomers observing the moon through crude telescopes, these flat, smooth surfaces looked like oceans or seas. Hence, the features were given names like Mare Nectarus (Sea of Nectar), Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity) and Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of storms).

The lighter colored highlands, or terrae, (TER-eye) consists mainly of impact craters. Crater means cup or bowl in Greek. These bowl shaped craters are the results of millions of years of impacts by solid bodies smashing into the lunar surface at cosmic speeds. Most scientists agree that craters were caused by these collisions and by an internal process like volcanoes.

Identifying individual craters on the lunar surface can keep you busy for many a night. The largest and easiest to find are Tycho in the southern highlands, Copernicus in the west central maria and Plato in the north. A good lunar atlas will help you identify many more.

Once you become familiar with the moon’s seas and craters it is time to investigate rilles and mountains. Rilles are long, narrow winding valleys on the lunar landscape. Rilles are believed to be ancient channels where lava rivers flowed. These ancient lava channels meander for hundreds of miles over the moon’s surface gradually disappearing into the smooth mare basins. A famous rille you can see through your telescope is located near the rim of the Imbrium basin in the northwestern quadrant of the moon. Apollo 15 astronauts landed here in July, 1971 and investigated the Hadley Rille close up.

Mountain ranges on the moon are not the same as those on earth. The moon’s mountains are rims of the ancient impact craters. Many lunar mountains rise thousands of feet above the floor of their nearby craters and are as majestic as any peak here on earth. The Apennine Mountains near crater Copernicus and the nearby Montes Alpes, are favorite targets for backyard astronomers.

word art / wortkunst

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found in Graz