January 25, 2010
Early Rays of Understanding
an unusual slice of rays cut from an image by Menno Jansen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
I have stumbled upon a largely overlooked Chuck Wood
Another idea from 1935
Also in 1935, Eppe Loreta at the Observatory of Bologna, Italy proposed that rays be named, like craters, after astronomers. Rays have apparently never received any designations, perhaps because of their discontinuous and nebulous nature. I am glad Loreta's idea never caught on - imagine every ray from Tycho being named for some second rate astronomer! Perhaps the present informal way of referring to rays - the Serenitatis ray from Tycho - is all that is needed. Or perhaps rays could be designated with the name of their parent crater followed by their azimulth. Thus the Serenitatis ray might be Tycho 35°.
Technical Details
10/23/2007. Bynostar 130-900 Newton + FujiFilm S5500 hybride camera. This image was found at the LPOD Photo Gallery.
Related Links
Still the best review of older ray theories is Baldwin's The Measure of the Moon, Chapter 19.
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