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Lunar Ephemeris
16.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
I am one of the special 5% (or is it 4%?) of Americans who use the Macintosh computer. My life is happy and I am awed with the ease of computing....for most things. But almost all astronomy software is written for Intel/Windows machines, especially lunar software.
Peaks of Plato
15.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The Moon always repays observation. For sociological reasons (sleep and jobs), Plato is commonly studied before midnight, and so the sunrise view with shadows cast by peaks on the eastern ramparts is most familiar.
Happy Birthday, Einstein!
14.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
If you think the Theory of Relativity is hard, try finding Einstein's crater! Although its diameter of 170 km makes it one of the largest craters on the lunar near side, Einstein's location at 88.5 W longitude means that its rarely visible.
First Light on a Nearly Full Moon
13.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
A new telescope brings great joy, anticipation and too often, clouds. Here is a first light image by Mark Stronge of Northern Ireland of the nearly full Moon of March 5th. Mark followed...
Forming the Moon
12.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Bill Hartmann isn't really that old, but from his paintings of the formation of the Moon you might think he witnessed the event 4.5 billion years ago. As a leading planetary scientist and a skilled artist, Hartmann uses painting to visualize scientific understanding and hypotheses.
Where is Yesterday's LPOD?
11.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Yesterday's LPOD was the remarkably high resolution image of a small piece of the Moon taken two years ago with one of the European Southern Observatory's 8.2 m telescope. Accepting the ESO press release, I stated that the image showed an area just inside the crater Taruntius. ESO and I were wrong.
ESA Looks at Taruntius
10.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
In the past large telescopes were commonly used to image the Moon. Edward Holden used the 36" Lick refractor to compile a lunar photographic atlas in the 1890s and Moore and Chappell acquired more great images from 1937 to 1947.
Half Moon in Tucson
9.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Lunar globes are rare and wonderful. At one time I had the small metal Replogle globe and I still possess a tiny NASA one plus my joy - a 12" Soviet-era globe that has unfortunately suffered plate tectonic ruptures from too many moves.
Sunset over Clavius
8.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
In 1858 Julius Schmidt became the director of the Athens Observatory, and he is best known for the large (2 meter diameter) moon map that he published in 1878. However, one of his finest lunar images appeared in his small book, Der Mond, published 22 years earlier (Leipzig, 1856).
Color Moon Map
7.03.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The Jan 28 LPOD astonished many observers with its detailed color rendition of the Full Moon. Now that imager, Filipe Alves, has used advanced computer manipulation to create a Mercator-like projection color image of the Moon - the first I know of. This is a level of sophistication that is new to amateur Moon mapping.