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| | <p>[[File:Lunar-scenic-flyby-20060707LPOD.jpg|lunar-scenic-flyby-20060707LPOD.jpg]]<br /> | | <p>[[File:Lunar-scenic-flyby-20060707LPOD.jpg|lunar-scenic-flyby-20060707LPOD.jpg]]<br /> |
| | <em>image by [mailto:anthony@perseus.gr Anthony Ayiomamitis ]</em></p> | | <em>image by [mailto:anthony@perseus.gr Anthony Ayiomamitis ]</em></p> |
| − | <p>Last night while observing I saw a bird fly in front of the Moon. I’ve seen this before, but I’ve never come close to imaging it. I have never seen an airplane silhouetted against the Moon, and I know of only a [http://www.pict.com/tomi/astro/english/televue/moon.html handful] of such ephemeral photos. That is exactly the sort of challenge that attracts Anthony Ayiomamitis, the amazing Greek photographer of the sky and everything in it. And Anthony has now captured a Moon spotted by an aircraft. Questions naturally arise about capturing a spacecraft in front of the Moon - and of course Anthony has already done [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060420 that] too for the International Space Station. But we will probably not see for a long time a silhouetted image of a spacecraft in orbit about around the Moon, for the largest of forthcoming lunar vehicles is likely to be only a few 10s of meters long, and so far our best resolution from Earth is a few hundreds of meters. We need larger telescopes, or better yet, larger lunar spacecraft.</p> | + | <p>Last night while observing I saw a bird fly in front of the Moon. I’ve seen this before, but I’ve never come close to imaging it. I have never seen an airplane silhouetted against the Moon, and I know of only a [http://www.pict.com/tomi/astro/english/televue/moon.html handful] of such ephemeral photos. That is exactly the sort of challenge that attracts Anthony Ayiomamitis, the amazing Greek photographer of the sky and everything in it. And Anthony has now captured a Moon spotted by an aircraft. Questions naturally arise about capturing a spacecraft in front of the Moon - and of course Anthony has already done [[April_20,_2006|that]] too for the International Space Station. But we will probably not see for a long time a silhouetted image of a spacecraft in orbit about around the Moon, for the largest of forthcoming lunar vehicles is likely to be only a few 10s of meters long, and so far our best resolution from Earth is a few hundreds of meters. We need larger telescopes, or better yet, larger lunar spacecraft.</p> |
| | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> | | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> |
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| | <div align="left"><strong>Related Links:</strong><br /> | | <div align="left"><strong>Related Links:</strong><br /> |
| | [http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Lunar-Scenes-Flyby-20060707.htm More information from Anthony]</div> | | [http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Lunar-Scenes-Flyby-20060707.htm More information from Anthony]</div> |
| − | <p align="center"><strong><br /> | + | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[July 8, 2006|The Baby & the Skull]] </p> |
| − | <em>You can now buy any book from Amazon thru [http://www.lpod.org/?page_id=102 LPOD!]</em></strong></p> | + | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[July 10, 2006|Craters and Papers]] </p> |
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