July 16, 2012
Moon Eats Planet Party
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
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.
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