Danny, you wrote (snip) Well, I have observed that part of Hase too, near and during local sunset, but I have not detected an illuminated cross! Are there...
Hello Just for eventual interest the GLR group has a nice activity for lunar domes and lunar geology. several projects are in progress so for eventual combined...
Hi Just for information, we have online a manual about lunar flashes and observing sessions. It is a combined effort ALS-GLR group. I think some of us can be...
LUFOD - LPOD in Spanish! http://lufod.lpod.org/ This century humans will move off Earth, to the Moon and beyond. And while I hope that citizens of the USA will...
Thanks for the heads up Chuck.I have been meaning to ask you a question,is your highly acclaimed book user friendly at the scope or is it more of a bedtime...
Tom, Check out the L100 card and the associated monthly columns in S&T. They will keep you busy, amused and enlightened at the telescope for quite a while....
Thanks Tony, I did forget about the "card".I fully intended to buy that one as well.I forget so much with all the medicines I have to take all day.Boy...
... your highly acclaimed book user friendly at the scope or is it more of a bedtime reader? Hi Tom, Wrong Chuck. You want the Chuck that knows what he is...
... Let me second this one --- Looking at our membership roster and watching as new people join, we have a lot of international participation here --- so I ...
... Oops! My mistake. I thought you meant the new poll. Yes, it has been slow with the moon so low, but we are kicking around how to develop a new lunar atlas...
... That may be the most critical piece of equipment! Time to draw and then time to draw again and again and again. My drawing started out unrecognizable, but...
... Lammel I am especially pleased with the photo of the central rille in the Alpine valley - not bad for a 5 " Newtonian! They were taken under good seeing...
... Hi Michael, Nice drawing! I not only like the drawing, but also your documentation of it, with seeing etc, along with notes to help people place it in...
... I've had that happen to --- something that I'm use to seeing as only an elongated blur suddenly has recognizable details and I am lost! ;-) Chuck Taylor...
... Back in the '60's everyone observed the moon. After Apollo, people seemed to think of the moon as old news, as if it were ever possible to exhaust all that...
... Hi Tim, Did you ever get an answer on this? The Opossum is one of Ron B(ee)s creations. I'm not sure where he has the drawing posted. Ron? Chuck Taylor...
... tail' got to be where Messier 1 and 2 craters are? Are there any other features similar or even more intriguing than Messier? IIRC, that was a topic in...
... Hi Michael, I didn't see a response so I'll kick in. The change from 10" to 12" is not that significant for the moon. The quality of optics can make a...
OPPS :-) You won't believe this but I just started to read Chuck Wood's artical in OCT. S&T and said to myself the name is't the same ! <g>.Sorry about that, I...
... This is what happened to me too.I finally got my scope of a lifetime (12"LX200) and never looked at the moon hardly ever.That all changed when I picked up...
light passing through our atmosphere, breaks up into wavefronts, so in the end whether you have a 20" reflector or a 200" one; the results is pretty much the...
Guys, At long last, I was able to see the moon this morning in the UK. 18 days old, captured some images on my webcam. I have placed them on my files section,...
Hi all, I just posted some photos from last Tuesday night, (31 Aug) to the "DNash" folder in the files directory. They are various mosaics and details taken...
... around how to ... So I'm not losing my marbles after all! (Though some of my observing buddies might disagree with that LOL). This sounds like a rockin' ...