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Polar Dryness
12.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The lunar south polar region almost always presents a craggy wilderness of rims and peaks, all squeezed together by foreshortening and exaggerated by grazing lighting. Its a delightful place to observe and maybe someday to visit.
Fertility Central
11.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Can you imagine an image of the central part of Mare Fecunditatis where Messier is not the most fascinating feature? Here is one! (But, yes, this fantastic image does show the rarely imaged N-S butterfly wing pattern of ejecta at Messier).
Professor and Student
10.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Giovanni Baptista Riccioli was a 17th century Jesuit scientist who devised the system of names still used on the Moon. His nomenclature was displayed on a map constructed by his former student Francesco Maria Grimaldi.
Marginal Maria
9.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
East of Crisium, when the lighting is right and libration favorable, the limb is dark and smooth with the odd mare called Marginis. This is a very appropriate name, for this patch of dark...
What a Difference a Day Makes
8.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
One of the most common - and in a way, most exciting - things you can observe on the Moon is the shifting of shadows as the sun rises over each crater and mountain.
Diamondback Rille
7.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
The lunar maria contain many sinuous rilles. All are somewhat difficult to see, and many are best known from orbital photography. One such feature is Diamondback Rille, an informal, astronaut-named guidepost on the approach to the Apollo 11 landing site in southern Mare Tranquillitatis.
Cleomedes Unveiled
6.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Spaceship Daversin has just returned from another Moon mission with the best images in existence of Cleomedes crater. This view shows many features unknown to lunar science. Congratulations, Bruno! This is the clearest view ever of the two known rilles that meet east of the 550 m high off-center peak, Alpha.
Finding Your Way on a Very Young Moon
5.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Observing the Moon when its is only 1 to 3 days old is difficult. It's always low in the western sky, lying on it's side, often tremulous with seeing, and such a slim sliver that few features can be identified.
A Rille Draped Across the Landscape
4.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
Judging by things I have recently read on the Web, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about lunar rilles. Different web sites state that the Sirsalis Rille - imaged here...
8” Marvel
3.10.2004 | Lunnoe foto dnya
LPOD features many images that are exquisitely detailed. And most of them are taken with precision mounted 8"-10" APO refractors or 12"-24" inch Schmidt-Cassegrains, commonly with specialty mirrors. These telescopes often cost more than a new car!