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<em>image by [mailto:aerts.leo@skynet.be Leo Aerts], Belgium</em><br /> | <em>image by [mailto:aerts.leo@skynet.be Leo Aerts], Belgium</em><br /> | ||
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| − | A few days ago we [http://lpod. | + | A few days ago we [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/November_16,_2014 saw] this region with opposite illumination. In submitting today's image Leo points out that he lives only 2 hours away from Richard Bosman, the person who captured the earlier view of Albategnius. I don't know if LPOD brought these two superb imagers together, but LPOD has certainly brought to a wider audience many excellent lunar imagers and artists; far more than I ever knew existed. LPOD also may have been the place that various lunar features were first described. It is possible the saucers within Albategnius were first [http://www.lpod.org/archive/LPOD-2005-04-08.htm discussed] (and [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/April_24,_2009 re-discussed]) in LPOD, certainly that is where I first became aware of them, as well as saucers in a few [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/February_11,_2010 other] smooth-floored craters. LRO is marvelous (and nearly definitive), but it lacks, for me, the joy of discovering something unexpected in a telescopic view. Leo with his telescope in his garden in Belgium is not doing anything different than me with mine on my deck. I can identify with that much more than with a lonely robot circling the Moon.<br /> |
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | ||
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<strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | <strong>Related Links</strong><br /> | ||
| − | <em>[ | + | <em>[[21st Century Atlas of the Moon|21st Century Atlas]]</em> charts 12 & 13.<br /> |
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<p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[November 22, 2014|What Did Galileo See?]] </p> | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[November 22, 2014|What Did Galileo See?]] </p> | ||
Latest revision as of 08:34, 28 October 2018
The Joy of Seeing
image by Leo Aerts, Belgium
A few days ago we saw this region with opposite illumination. In submitting today's image Leo points out that he lives only 2 hours away from Richard Bosman, the person who captured the earlier view of Albategnius. I don't know if LPOD brought these two superb imagers together, but LPOD has certainly brought to a wider audience many excellent lunar imagers and artists; far more than I ever knew existed. LPOD also may have been the place that various lunar features were first described. It is possible the saucers within Albategnius were first discussed (and re-discussed) in LPOD, certainly that is where I first became aware of them, as well as saucers in a few other smooth-floored craters. LRO is marvelous (and nearly definitive), but it lacks, for me, the joy of discovering something unexpected in a telescopic view. Leo with his telescope in his garden in Belgium is not doing anything different than me with mine on my deck. I can identify with that much more than with a lonely robot circling the Moon.
Chuck Wood
Technical Details
February 18th 2013, 17:43 UT. Celestron 14"
Related Links
21st Century Atlas charts 12 & 13.
Yesterday's LPOD: What Did Galileo See?
Tomorrow's LPOD: More Moore
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