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за сентябрь 2004 года.
Viscous Volcanics?
10.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
One of the weirdest terrains on the Moon is a mound of lumpiness extending north from the crater Descartes. This terrain consists of a series of hills and ridges separated by valleys and depressions. It looks like a super-large, rough-textured lava flow erupted in Deslandres and flowed over the crater wall to the north.
Eight is Enough
9.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The Moon is the most incredible object in the night sky - at least visually. Hour by hour and night by night it moves across the sky, changing its illuminated shape. This progression is dramatically illustrated in a mosaic from eight consecutive nights of imaging by Peter Lawrence.
Where in the Moon is Nielsen?
8.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
I must admit that I have never heard of the crater Nielsen, but then I realized that this was another unnecessary naming change left over from those nomenclaturally wild 1970s. Nielsen, named for both...
Helen's Husband
7.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Although the lunar crater Menelaus is named for a Greek astronomer in ancient Alexandria, I prefer to think instead of another Menelaus, the warrior husband of Helen of Troy. The lunar Menelaus is a 27 km wide, 2.6 km deep crater straddling the rim of the Serenitatis basin and the mare that fills the basin.
Terrific Taruntius
6.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Taruntius is an often overlooked crater. There are few photos of it by amateurs or spacecraft. This great image by Tom Leech shows what we have been missing. The 58 km wide crater...
Lunar Super-Heroes
5.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The Olympics are over, but some Greek super heroes live forever. Two of the mightiest gods of ancient Greece were Atlas and Hercules. Atlas was so strong that he held the Earth...
ToolKit Disc
4.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The granddaddy of software for lunar studies is Harry Jamieson's Lunar Observer's Toolkit (LOT), which was first written in 1985. Some observers have been using this program for years, but I haven't because I use a Macintosh and it is a Windows program.
Snake in the Mare
3.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The high resolution Apollo Hasselblad Camera views of the mare are absolutely spectacular near the terminator. Here we see the southwestern end of the peculiar linear mountain range that parallels the sloping northern edge of the Aristarchus Plateau.
Ray-Swept Stofler
2.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Three-hundred fifty km east of Tycho is a crater which has seen some tough days. Stofler once was a 126 km wide Copernicus-like crater, probably about 4.5 km deep. Its still that wide...
Hundred Year Old Hevelius
1.09.2004 | Лунное фото дня
With our multi-hundred dollar eyepieces, goto telescopes, electronic cameras and clever software we see and record the Moon better than ever before. Oh yeah? Compare the top left drawing of Hevel (the name before latinization gentrified it to Hevelius), made in 1896 by one Capt. Molesworth, with your own observations.