Come see live video of the moon! 11-20-12 *Thanks for coming!*

All I see is an alien building on the moon.

Thank you.

this is nice...
thank you

Yawn

show me them off-worlders.

No prob!

can we use the GLP observatory as well ? :D

Well...it's the moon. I've been seeing it alot lately...usually at night though. :>

Last Edited by _Prism_ on 11/20/2012 09:11 PM

Thanks for the pin!

Hey astro, how do you lock the moon in place? I mean to cancel the rotation from the moon and earth :D

Dr. you are the man!!

Awesome Dr. Astro!

how close can you zoom in? cool stuff.

I'm using a polar aligned telescope, specifically an 8" Meade LX200 classic (pre-GPS). It automatically tracks with the rotation of the earth. The moon doesn't quite move at the sidereal rate because of its orbital motion around the earth, but it's close enough that it's fairly steady.

The view at the start was from a camcorder on a standard camera tripod though, then I showed a view through the widefield Orion refactor riding piggyback on the LX200, now I'm showing through the LX200 itself.

Sweet! Thanks!

I can digitally zoom it in closer if you like, but to optically zoom in closer would require a complete reconfig that would effectively take my widefield camera offline.

That's incredible! Iv'e always wanted to get high res shots of the moon for my artwork, but ive never had the proper gear. Really amazing work you've done with the cam! Thanks for sharing this with everyone.

Very cool, thank you

Zoom in on the Apollo landing sites. Let's see of there's a moon buggy there or if NASA lied!

cool, but that can get more boring then NASCAR after 100 laps of green flag racing at Michigan.

What is that in the middle of the crater top center? Damn the camera just moved, but there's another one to the left , lower half. Most of the craters are empty, but those two have something in the center of them.

Welcome back Astro. Good to see you back here

Nice view, thanks.

Whatever it is, its casting a shadow

I'm afraid neither this telescope nor any other telescope on earth has the angular resolution necessary to resolve any of the apollo hardware. Not even hubble. Every pixel you see here represents about 1 mile on the moon. That's about as good as I can resolve it. Hubble can resolve closer to football field sized objects, which is still far bigger than any apollo hardware. Only the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter can directly resolve the Apollo hardware, and it has.

Sure is.....hmmmmm.....

Thx for the opportunity ! We mere mortal don't have that equpment.