July 16, 2012

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Moon Eats Planet Party

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image by Bill Metallinos, Corfu, Greece

If you switch back and forth between today's LPOD and yesterday's you can see the movement of the Moon from upper right to occulting Jupiter just between Venus and the Pleiades. But this image wasn't to provide an illustration of orbital motion, it is just so wonderful that I wanted to share it. This could be the cover for a new book on observing. What they saw through the scopes was this view below.

Chuck Wood

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We Interrupt This Program for a Special Announcement
The Lunar Science Forum will stream its talks from Tuesday to Thursday this week. This will be a great chance to learn the latest from LRO, the first results from GRAIL, and other new data and ideas. Here is the agenda. Talks are in two different rooms. The URL for the Main room is http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/lsf2012m/
and the URL for the Side room is http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/lsf2012s/
We Return to the Normally Scheduled Program

Technical Details
Top: 15 July 2012, 02:20 UT. Canon eos 40D + ef 15mm fisheye @ f2.8, iso800 for 30sec.
Bottom: 15 July 2012, 02:30 UT. Takahashi Toa130, 1000mm @ f7.7 em200 temma2 Canon eos 40D, Iso800, 23 images, 1/1000sec - 8sec with Photomatix.

Related Links
Bill's astro images gallery

Yesterday's LPOD: A Brighter Eye for Taurus

Tomorrow's LPOD: Creases, Cracks, Fractures And Inflections

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