Gerard P. Kuiper didn't want to know about them, and thought they were some sort of april-joke. Today, the almost 100 names of Hugh Percival Wilkins are NOT an...
Observed from the moon's near side, the clouds of the Full Earth reach'd their absolute albedo-value ("pure white clouds"). I wonder if the optical phenomenon...
Dear explorers of the moon's cratered surface (seen through telescopes, and in lunar atlases, or on moonmaps), I want more information about H.P.Wilkins's name...
Hello, Bob. I don't know if these pictures will help you. http://www.madpc.net/~peterl/Moon/Craters/MAustrale.html Move your mouse over the pictures to get...
Hi Stefan, Thanks a lot for your efforts! I can see now where I went wrong with mis-identifying Pontecoulant and consequently a few other things. The differing...
Hi Peter, Yes, those image do help a lot and fill in some other areas. They exactly confirm what Stefan was saying. Wow! I'm amazed how confusing these...
Additions to the A.B.C. of H.P.Wilkins's and P.Moore's nomenclature (see also APPENDIX R in E.A.Whitaker's book MAPPING AND NAMING THE MOON; A HISTORY OF LUNAR...
Question: where upon the Earth's physiographic structures and features are those rock layers showing indications of deformation by the Moons gravitational...
... There are laboratories where lunar tides on the solid part of the Earth are measured, and the displacement is around 30 cm. One such laboratory is in a...
Hello Group, Today on the LPOD site, Charlie explained about the Yahoo widget machine and gave the directions for the LPOD widget and the APOD widget. This...
Yesterday evening (saturday the 1st) was an evening to remember. Not because it was april fool's day. There was an exceptionally transparent sky over the...
... [...] ... [...] ... Well, I'm no specialist. But Yesterday I got this shot with the Bradford Robotic Telescope (click on "original" to get the full size):...
Thanks Paolo! Those Earthshine photographs are indeed extraordinary! The first one (the bright one) shows the "trompe l'oeil"-effect of the "BIG crescent and...
Hi Danny, and group. I was imaging yesterday, first at 18:25 UT when the sky was still blue. I captured these using my EOS300D DSLR attached to my Megrez 80...
Dave, those two stars near the moon's north-pole are indeed the curious couple! Great photograph! I wonder if those two have S.A.O.-numbers, or Z.C.-numbers...
Not the problem I had, John, I assume. The Yahoo widget machine only works with Windows 2000 and XP. So those of us with older equipment and a reluctance to ...
The NASA press release about last March 29 solar eclipse observed by the ISS crew includes a stamp-sized image of the lunar shadow. Here are larger versions: ...
Dear explorers of digital lunar atlases and common 'paper' moonmaps, It could be that the following message appeared many months ago in the mail-traffic of...
honestly, i'm thinking that the surface of the Sun might be composed of a molten metalic crust. that every several hundred million yrs when there is an...
Rogue, a much more crazy idea, and somewhat related to yours, is the one of the "garbage-planet" (which is the planet we call "Mars"). This old planet (Mars)...
Well I don't care what people say... Last time there was one of them visitors, asking: "What's so interesting about the moon? You can't observe the moon all...
Hi Danny. I don't think we'd dispute that fact (you're addicted!) Don't get too mad at them :-) People don't realise what's so fascinating until they learn a...
Inspired by Eric's wonderful LPOD image and simply by the fact that it was there, I found myself on 1 April imaging Crisium and the area to its north. This is...
Well the author of the widget (ME!) has just joined this group. I can't think what has happened to our download. If you rename the widget back to to LPOD.zip,...
TOM - I want to use part of this image for LPOD tomorrow but I don't know what scope you used - visiting your website I see you have an 8", 9.25" and 14"! Let...
there are as many kinds of people as there are craters or critters. we observers instead of being hermit crabs tucked away in a crevis go out into the open...
lol,great read. since the last half of last year until now, i have been trying to rectify science/geological time line, astronomy time line, and the time line...
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