A curious debate! P.S.; A related B.D.-story (graphic novelle): "Apollo appelle Soyouz" ("Apollo calls Soyuz") by Albert Weinberg (the adventures of Canadian...
Reason number 856247 to avoid evenings at a Public Observatory. 99.9 percent of the visitors want to know the location of the "Terrestrial Studio", not of the...
... Danny, you may be living in some sort of singularity. Although I do get occasional moonhoax questions in my public lunar observing sessions, most of the...
Daft questions... (most were not at all astronomy-related): -"Do you live here?" (they thought it was my habitat: the observatory's dome). -"Are you married?"...
For a bullet to weigh a few ounces it would have be bigger than an elephant gun [max ~1.75 oz] such as the 50 cal BMG machinegun [max wt ~2 oz], not a 45...
... Yeah, I was making an approximation, my point being that a tiny bullet actually has very little ability to move a big human - especially one in a whopping...
In the famous sci-fi short story - A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey Landis - an astronaut who crashed on the Moon has to keep walking for 30 days to stay in ...
I'm guessing that even Neil Armstrong wouldn't have done better......... Tony ... From: chuck wood To: lunar-observing@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March...
... designed and ... I agree. On the issue of walking in sunlight for thirty days, I wonder how realistic such a feat would be? I guess if the astronaut was...
Hi all, Still socked in with clouds up here, so I went on and processed another lunar shot. The ray system of Kepler is fantastic, and the plethora of sunken...
Nice work Chris I like your light rays of Kepler and the mysterious Reiner Gamma! Regards, George ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I noted the favourable northwestern libration this morning and took a few images of this area. This one is Pythagoras using Mewlon 250 + DMK21AF + TMB 1.8x...
I always thought NASA needed a better apparel designer.............. Tony ... From: Danny Caes To: lunar-observing@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 01,...
Really best capture of Pythagoras! good work Stephen. Regards George Tarsoudis www.lunar-captures.com ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Although I don't think it's a brand new discovery, I want to know if the two curious "plateau"-like elevations at Sinus Successus were already investigated....
They should have hired Sylvia Anderson (she designed the clothes in "U.F.O."). Speaking of a milestone in British television's sci-fi. D. ... From: "Tony...
... silver ... Oh, for those halcyon days when 1980 was still pretty far in the future and women in silver jumpsuits and purple wigs looked hot! Sometimes it...
The story is available to read on the web through the links provided in Chuck's post #21666. Good short story worth the 20 - 25 min it takes to read. The route...
Danny Perhaps the remnant of a collapse, similar to a volcanic pipe (erosional on earth) that got stranded as the basin settled. Although, one would suspect...
Nicely done Chris, I hope the clouds part for you in March and look forwards to seeing your results with higher magnification. Regards, Stefan ... From: Chris...
Hi Stephen, Very nice image of this less often imaged but photogenic crater and I like the apparent depth of field effect. Regards, Stefan ... From: gille6565 ...
Hi all, Its been ages since I had any new material to work with but at last I had several days of fairly good seeing in February. Still getting to grips with...
I really like the alternate version of the Petavius image, to my eye it's the best of the 3. Hyginus is the best view I've had of that rille in a long time. It...
Dear Stefan really fantastic captures I like more the Petavius area (it is my lovely crater). Your camera is new Infinity 2-1M? Regards, George ... [Non-text...
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