Dears Friends, i like to share with you "SELENOLOGY TODAY", available online the issue #12 Selenology Today 12 http://digilander.libero.it/glrgroup/ There are...
Stefan, At present, the LCROSS Team has not issued any formal magnitude estimates for the ejecta cloud, in a form useable by the amateur community. They have...
An interesting image. The launch abort system for Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/20090128224939.aspx Side note:...
I was studying the Moon tonight under conditions of fairly poor seeing. My C5 was pointed at the area around Julius Caesar at 178X when I noticed a rille that...
Hi Kurt, I managed to get a few images of the moon last night, and I targeted the south eastern limb area which hopefully shows the region of interest: ...
Hi Cathy I am a big beleiver that smaller and sharper is better than big and fuzzy. I try to observe around 250x, which for most nights is the limit I can go...
... Tom, That's an excellent result, and does indeed show the Faustini/Shoemaker area (which is a possible target area for the upcoming LCROSS impact) as well...
Raffaello, Thank you for the link. A fine magazine. Have lost quite a bit of today already reading! And I really appreciate all the dome information. Cathy, I...
Hi Jim, I don't know the specific pass band of my red filter, but it is part of a standard 1.25" RGB filter set from True Technologies. Hope this helps. ...
Ted: ok, thanks for the comment about Selenology Today. Raf ... From: Ted Treiber To: lunar-observing@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 7:35 PM ...
A lot of the time I can't run 250x, but I usually don't go out if seeing is too iffy. And if I do I'll take my 4" refractor instead of my 8" and be quite...
Today's APOD (Astronomy Picture Of The Day) shows a photograph of Comet Lulin, a so-called *fast mover* which could be a worthwile experience during the second...
Wayne Bailey, the new editor of The Lunar Observer, has uploaded the February 2009 issue to: http://www.zone-vx.com/tlo.pdf Thanks to all who contributed,...
Oooooops!!! The moon shall be near Full when she's in the neighbourhood of that comet. Damn, there's no possibility to observe the moon's *Ashen Light* and...
... Thanks, Tom. Ditto to what Jim said. I am organizing images of the LCROSS target regions through one complete lunar libration "nod" in a graphical...
... Thanks, Tom. I've added your February 1st (UT) image to the LPOD Photo Gallery at: http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-3854 and to the LCROSS...
Thank you Jim! Two minutes after I took the red filtered image I took a Near IR image of the same area, which I just finished processing, and it is clearly...
Thanks for the information Kurt. I had thought that previous expectations of the impact timing and location indicated that the libration would position the...
The observational drawing to which these notes refer has been posted in Peter Grego's photos folder. Unnamed ridge, 20N 15W 2009 February 3 18:30-19:05 UT Col....
Hi all, Long time no post:) Here is an image from way back in August, boy I miss the summer:) It shows the area around Walter/Walther :) along with Werner,...
Hi Ed, You are making some of the most beautiful lunar images around - the handling of tone and lack of artifacts in your processing is really impressive....
Awesome, screen filling detail. Well done, sir, exceedingly well done. I too find that I am getting better results with AVI Stack than with RegiStax 4. With...
Did this sunrise trio shot a couple evenings ago, in what was the last of the high pressure system over this part of California. Seeing last night was back to...
4:50PM PST-Noticed the Hesiodus sunrise in progress. Smaller crater Hesodius to West of larger Pitatus on South shore of Mare Nubium has triangular ray of...
Hi Ed, It's great to see an image from you after such a long time, and a beauty it is too! :o) The resolution and processing are great and the tonality is just...
Hi Group, Here is another image I took this past weekend: http://home.roadrunner.com/~tbash/images/AltaiScarpFeb1.jpg Image details: 235 mm SCT @ F/10,...
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