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

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

what is the scale that I am looking at right now?

that little crater in the upper right of the smooth section...what would it's diameter be approximately?

Found this to...explain it:

Complex impact craters have a single or multiple peaks in the middle of the crater. These craters have diameters between about 12 and 110 miles (20 and 175 km), and the central uplift is usually one or a few peaks. Craters with a diameter over 110 miles (175 km) can have more complex, ring-shaped uplifts within the crater.



Sounds a bit off to me but I know nothing except the moon is pretty.

Those are the craters' central peaks. Sufficiently large impacts will produce what we call "complex craters" while smaller impacts (such as the one that created Meteor Crater in arizona) create simple craters without central peaks.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

A little music to watch the moon by...

Just for fun, here's the moon from the camcorder one more time.

Hey Astro, you got a link to your rig specs?

great job +1

Wow...its so amazing how that thing can orbit around like that in the middle of our concave earth just 35 miles above our head! Space is awesome!

A link? No, but here they are for you:
Right now, a camcorder on standard camera tripod.
In a second I'll show the view from an Orion ST-80 80mm achromat with mallincam.
Then I'll switch it back to the main scope, which the ST-80 is attached to (riding piggyback), which is an 8" Meade LX200 Classic (pre-GPS), with a modified Samsung SDC-435 camera.

hey astro...maybe you could help me get started with telescope basics...i have a celestron and cant figure out how to use it :( when i look at things like stars...all I can see is a blue ball that looks like its boiling...same w/ planets :(

Looks like all CGI to me

So here's the view from the Orion ST-80 and mallincam. Since it's riding piggyback on the LX200 this is a polar aligned view as opposed to the altitude-azimuth view of the camcorder a second ago.

Very nice, thanks.

Sounds like your focus is off. What kind of celestron?

I don't know why. I'll take that as a compliment to how good the view is though ;)

Awsome cam!!! you just need to add some background noise, like barking dogs and the constant buzz of Drone Planes. with the occasional explosion.

I see it in daytime too

Now here's the view again from the main telescope, an 8" LX200 with a modified Samsung SDC-435 operating at f/10. The mallincam is a superior camera at deep space objects, but the SDC-435 seems to excel at bright solar system objects like the moon.

I want to see what's on the dark side ;)

awesome thanks astro

ask and you shall recieve:)

Dr Astro you are the Best! Ty for sharing

thanks for the demo. may i make a suggestion for the next show? is it possible for you to stream and "telestrate" -- you could be the john madden of popular astronomy for the masses. i know i'd tune in.

Dr Astro -- do you believe that man has ever walked on the moon ?? or was that all fake ?? thanks

Thanks... You are the man!

That is something I want to do ultimately. It's another layer of complexity to set up, of course, but I do have that on my to-do list. Tonight was a spur of the moment replacement for Saturday since it's so clear right now.

I have absolutely no doubt that they walked on the moon.

Howz my pic taken yesterday Dr [iam newbie with new DSLR toy]?

[link to oi49.tinypic.com]

What the fuck! are you pretending that we're fucked?...