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<td><div align="center" span class="main_sm"><p>Image Credit: European Space Agency Yepun telescope</p></div></td><br />
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<p class="story" align="center"><b>ESA Looks at Taruntius </b></p><br />
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In the past large telescopes were commonly used to image the Moon. Edward Holden used the 36" Lick refractor to <br />
compile a lunar photographic atlas in the 1890s and Moore and Chappell acquired more great images from 1937 to <br />
1947. Pease used the Mt Wilson 100" reflector for a famous lunar series in the 1920s, and the Lick 120" made some <br />
memorable lunar images back in the early 1960s. The 61" Catalina reflector of the Lunar and Planetary Lab acquired <br />
thousands of images for the <I>Consolidated Lunar Atlas</I> of 1967. Since then the Moon has been infrequently <br />
imaged by large telescopes and when it happens, its a lark. A prime example is this wonderful view of a small <br />
area in the crater Taruntius in northern Mare Fecunditatis. The European Southern Observatory wanted to test its <br />
new 8.2 m (323"!) telescope with adaptive optics on an extended object (rather than a star), so it imaged this <br />
area. The resolution is 130 m, better than any other known terrestrial image of the Moon. I immediately contacted <br />
them suggesting more scientifically interesting targets for high resolution imaging, but never got a reply. I hope <br />
that some large telescope will again image the Moon (maybe with a webcam) and look at important sites - such as <br />
the locations of the Leonid flashes.<br />
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<p><b>Technical Details:</b><br><br />
30 April 2002, ESA VLT YEPUN 8.2 m telescope and NACO adaptive optics system, guided using a sunlit <br />
lunar peak outside the field of view. A short exposure (0.22 seconds) through a narrow-band <br />
near-infrared filter (at wavelength 2.3 µm).<br />
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<p class="story"><b>Related Links:</b><br><br />
[http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/phot-19-02.html European Southern Observatory]<br><br />
[http://www.2meta.com/april-fools/1997/eso-moon.html ESO AIMS COUPLED OPTICAL TELESCOPES AT THE MOON]<br />
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[March 10, 2015|Half Moon in Tucson]] </p><br />
<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[March 12, 2015|Where is Yesterday's LPOD?]] </p><br />
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<p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Author & Editor:</b><br><br />
[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Charles A. Wood]</p><br />
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