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за 2004 год.
The Golden Triad
15.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
In American slang, something is "golden" when it is "supremely favored or fortunate". And that describes the triad of craters near the center of the Moon's face. Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus...
North Polar Rays
14.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The north polar region of the Moon is blessed with two wonderful ray systems - and a mystery ray - that few observers pay attention to. In this portion of a near full Moon image...
A New/Old Catalog of Lunar Craters
13.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
From 1969 thru 1973 I led the day to day cataloging of lunar craters at the Lunar & Planetary Lab in Tucson. Working under the initial direction of Dai Arthur I supervised a small...
A Basin Near Schiller
12.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
How many times have you observed the weirdly elongated crater Schiller, or looked past Phocylides to find Wargentin, or beyond Zucchius to see Bailly? Did you ever notice the relatively smooth-surface between these other craters?
Who Named That Crater?
11.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Lunar nomenclature, which is in some ways the least important aspect of the Moon, has a fascinating history. It doesn't really matter what a feature is named as long as everyone uses the same name for it.
Galileo's Colorful Moon
10.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The Moon is a mono-color sphere - shades of grey, chromatically bounded by some whitish glare and black shadows. The problem is that our eyes, so wonderfully sensitive to faint light and subtle hues aren't good enough.
The Crater Formerly Known As Prinz
9.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Well, it actually still is known as Prinz. I can't say much about the crater itself - its a 47 km wide crater with a completely mare-flooded interior. The north rim of the crater rises a kilometer above the mare surface, but most of the southern rim is gone. Where did it go?
Chandrayaan-1
8.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
With the excitement of the US's plan to return to the Moon it is easy to overlook the fact that American satellites won't be the only ones there. Indeed, there may be other humans on the Moon by the time American astronauts return.
Deslandres South
7.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Deslandres - previously informally called Hellplain - is a fascinating, but often overlooked feature. With a diameter of 234 km (slightly bigger than Clavius at 225 km), Deslandres is one of the larger craters on the nearside. This low Sun image by Italian amateur Cristian Fattinnanza well shows some perplexing features.
Heavenly Hevelius
6.05.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Bruno Daversin has done it again! This recent image of Hevelius is the finest ever taken from the surface of the Earth! Ignomiously stuck near his lunar rivals Riccioli and Grimaldi - they ignored all the names he had given to craters - Hevelius is an 106 km wide crater that once probably looked like Copernicus.