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Still on the Limb
3.08.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Last year when historically great librations were tilting the west limb of the Moon into view, Fred Ringwald took this high sun image of the Orientale Basin. Now do you see why I am always encouraging people to observe when the sun is high?
Jupiter Graze
2.08.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The Moon is huge - in our sky. This is brought home every time any other planet is in the same eyepiece field with Luna. On January 26, 2002, Jupiter grazed the Moon's southeast limb, at least as seen from Mike Tyrrell's backyard in the United Kingdom.
Another Day, Another Success
1.08.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The Lunar Orbiter program, which acquired high resolution images of the lunar surface to help identify safe landing sites for Apollo, was the most successful of America's lunar efforts. There were 5 missions...
40 Years Since Impact
31.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Forty years ago today, the US lunar exploration program finally found success. After a series of embarassing failures, the rocket, the navigation and the cameras all worked, and Ranger 7 radioed back to Earth about 4000 images of ever increasing resolution as it approached and finally slammed into the Moon.
Obliquely Viewed Fault
30.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
One of the most famous features on the Moon - certainly as judged by the number of image submissions to LPOD - is the Straight Wall. Until chancing upon this image in the online Apollo Image Atlas at the Lunar & Planetary Institute, I though that the Wall had not been photographed during the Apollo program.
EAW & GPK
29.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Ewen Whitaker and Gerard Kuiper (in tie) looking at a photo of the landing site for Ranger 6, as the spacecraft sped towards the Moon on Feb 1, 1964. Ranger 6 hit the Moon the next day very near its target in western Mare Tranquilitatis. But as the solemn faces foretold, no photos were taken.
Cognitum Kipuka
28.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Kipuka is a Hawaiian word for an island. In volcanology it is an island of older land surrounded by a younger lava flow. In the middle of Mare Cognitum - the Known Sea (known because it is where Ranger 7 acquired the first high resolution images of the Moon) - are a number of kipukas.
What is a Dome?
27.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
I know what a lunar dome is. Its a perfectly symmetrical mare rise, low-sloped and preferably topped with a summit pit. The Hortensius domes and the dome near Kies are the ideals of lunar domes. But I am broad minded, so I also call the steeper-sided, rougher textured, pitless low hills near Arago domes too.
Two Satellites
26.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
I was taking images of the Moon with my Celestron 8" SCT, a 25mm plossl, and my Canon G1 digital camera, held afocally in front of the eyepiece by hand. Just playing around, not intending to image anything of importance.
Pre-History of the Triesnecker Area
25.07.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The Triesnecker area is a magnet for observers - not because of the 26 km wide fresh crater, but for the nexus of mostly linear, thin rilles east and north of the crater. This...