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за 2004 год.
Hippalus Arcs
26.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Impact basins are characterized by a family of features such as multiple rims, concentric fractures and ridges, a central depression, radial markings, and extensive ejecta deposits. This list results not from a single perfect basin, but from recognizing consistent patterns in all the Moon's basins.
On the Limb with Alika
25.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Anyone who read Sky & Telescope during the late 1950s and early 1960s was treated to wonderful drawings of the Moon by artist and observer Alika Herring. Of Hawaiian origin, Alika was also a famous Hawaiian steel guitar player and a master mirror maker at Cave Optical Company.
Platonic Nirvana
24.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
The Holy Grail of competition for visual observers and imagers is the floor of the crater Plato. With a good 5" telescope, three and sometimes four craterlets can be seen. The very best amateur images, until now, show a dozen or so crater pits.
Infant Moon
23.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Look west tonight, when the twilight glow is lingering, for the slender crescent of the 2-day old Moon. This is always a wonderful and frustrating time to observe. Against a pinkish-blue sky, the Moon...
Ring Around the Moon
22.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Some people think they are rare, but a ring around the Moon - a Moon halo - is not especially. However, they are beautiful and uncommon enough that its fun to get other folks to come out of the house to see them.
Sci-Fi Moon
21.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Many scientists and engineers who worked on the Apollo project in the 1960s reported being inspired by science fiction stories that they read as teenagers. This wonderful cover for a 1928 paperback (found...
French Moon
20.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Classical studies of the Moon from the late 1700s and 1800s were most famously done in Germany (Schroter, Lohrmann, Beer and Madler and Schmidt (who did much work in Athens). From 1876 (Neison and then Elger and Goodacre) to 1955 (Wilkins and Moore), England was the center of lunar mapping. What about other nations?
King of the Craters
19.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
In the USA, January 19 is Martin Luther King Day, a time to commemorate the life of a leading civil rights leader. What better way to celebrate than to appreciate King crater on the farside of the Moon.
LeGrand Moon
18.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
Recently I recommended lunar charts by Antonin Rukl as the absolute best available. They are...to post on a wall, unfold at the eyepiece, or savor as a lovely book, but I must retract...
Wood's Spot
17.01.2004 | Лунное фото дня
One of the brightest craters on the Moon is the 40 km wide Aristarchus in northern Oceanus Procellarum. Nearby is the largest lunar rille, Schroeter's Valley. Both of these cut into the largest and strangest, but historically often overlooked mare island, the Aristarchus Plateau.