The January 2006 issue of the A.L.P.O. Lunar Section's monthly newsletter, The Lunar Observer, has been uploaded to: http://www.zone-vx.com/tlo.pdf Happy New...
... Figure 3 on page 4, an image of Fracastorius, has triggered an understanding of something about its shape that should have been obvious from my visual...
Congratulations, Bill! The Lunar Observer is an excellent forum for dedicated observers to share their lunar images, drawings and reports - I always read it....
I've been working on it this holiday - have 71 L's written. And have been revising an intro book - a natural history of the Moon. Hopefully 2006 will see the...
I presume everyone has seen this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4570730.stm Does anyone have an image? or know exactly where the strike was located. ...
Thanks to everybody for their recent kind words about TLO. It is a joy and a privilege to work with so many fine amateur astronomers. You folks are the ones...
all i can say is there was something a couple of days ago that gave general lat\long...sorry didn't save it; if i relocate it will post it. i've only seen the...
Moon, what moon? Every time I look for this fabled creature all I get is water in my eye. Tony (growing gills in Seattle) ... [Non-text portions of this...
42.1W...36.5N link http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/moon_meteoroid.html?26122005 lol, that was a good one Tony. rogue ... get is ... gave ... post ... ...
Beautiful twilight colors! Must be interesting to investigate those colors in a fish-eye view (an all-sky camera). By the way, Dear readers, if you have X-mas...
... Cassini Hood robs the riches--of moons--to give to the poor: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm Paolo -- Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log...
... I think the two events in question were too small, so the crater would be below our resolution limit, even for Hubble. I remember reading various accounts...
It's time to launch a bunch of Spirit/Opportunity type rovers to our own moon! (such rovers are very successful on the cold harsh Martian surface, let's see if...
... It would be nice if the discovers would publish the UTC time of the 11/7/05 impact so amateurs could search their images taken on the same night. It would...
... Has anybody tried to contact them? Did they try to contact other lunar observers for independent confirmations? Paolo -- Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log -...
Reminder from the Calendar of lunar-observing http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/cal Photo Op - "X" visible 07 DEC at 0028UT for USA Saturday...
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Hi & Happy New Year to all, I thought I would let you know I have given my website a long overdue update, with some new images as well as some older updates...
Danny - I don't think we want Spirit or Opportunity on the Moon. They have each travelled 5-6 km over two years! What is needed is a more robust and faster ...
... Paulo replied - ... I don't know the answer on either of your questions. I haven't heard any reports of any confirmations. I don't feel I have enough lunar...
Can anyone spot a crater that wasn't there before? depends on its size, right?...but spotting the ejecta is another matter, indeed. rogue. ... <LUNAROBS@A...>...
Stefan, I'm glad to see someone posting some new images - we've had a real dearth of new ones lately. I like how you organized your website. I think Neat Image...
Sir, thanks for comment. It's a fact: I day-dream too much of lunar rovers and daily transmitted images of the lunar surface (images made during every possible...
Wouldn't a new crater have to be at least 1/2 mile wide before amateurs would have much chance of seeing it? I know my 106mm can barely discern something...