September 1, 2010

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LRO WAC image by Rick Evans,

John Moore started it and Rick has taken the next big step. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's Wide Angle Camera takes 100 km wide images of great value. They are especially interesting to amateur astronomers because the WAC 75 m resolution is only 7 to 12 times better than the best telescopic images. But only a handful of the WAC images have been released by the LRO team. John figured out how to do a manual reconstruction of the venetian blind-looking raw WAC data to produce some unofficial new images. Inspired by that, Rick has just written a program to automate the process to create WAC images. He used the free program language Octave, and his Chuck Wood

Technical Details
See Rick's technical description.


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