Okay... what am I seeing on the moon?

"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
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I'm extremely amateur, but I saw something a little surprising tonight
(between 8:40 and 8:50 PM mountain time) Looking at the moon through my
Celestron, there were two very bright white spots jsut *behind* the
terminator in Palus Nebularum. Tried taking some photos, but as my setup
is jamming a digital camera in the eyepeice, the results were
disappointing. The spots did not move over ten minutes. Changing the
eyepiece up and down in magnification did not get rid of them.A little
help?



That was probably the headlights on my Lunar Dune Buggy. We were parked in
the location you mentioned at exactly the time you mentioned. My hi-beams
were on, right?

After hearing about Neil Armstrong's reports that aliens are on the moon I
decided to investigate for myself and put an end to the arguments over the
authenticity of Armstrong's reports. Dr. Mortimer Klein and I traveled to
the moon and explored every inch of the lunar surface and found nothing more
than the items left there by Earthlings, i.e. no aliens and no alien
spacecraft wreckage. I can only conclude that Armstrong was in error or the
reports attributed to him are fabrications by net kooks. Dr. Klein has
verified my findings and neither of us are liars and you know that because I
just told you so. If you don't believe me then you're obviously part of the
kook conspiracy.

CNR

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"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
...
I'm extremely amateur, but I saw something a little surprising tonight
(between 8:40 and 8:50 PM mountain time) Looking at the moon through my
Celestron, there were two very bright white spots jsut *behind* the
terminator in Palus Nebularum. Tried taking some photos, but as my setup
is jamming a digital camera in the eyepeice, the results were
disappointing. The spots did not move over ten minutes. Changing the
eyepiece up and down in magnification did not get rid of them.A little
help?


Look at the area tomorrow and determine the peaks. Twin peaks

Those usually are mountain tops still in sunlight.

Saul Levy


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:08:35 GMT, Scott Lowther
wrote:

I'm extremely amateur, but I saw something a little surprising tonight
(between 8:40 and 8:50 PM mountain time) Looking at the moon through my
Celestron, there were two very bright white spots jsut *behind* the
terminator in Palus Nebularum. Tried taking some photos, but as my setup
is jamming a digital camera in the eyepeice, the results were
disappointing. The spots did not move over ten minutes. Changing the
eyepiece up and down in magnification did not get rid of them.A little
help?

"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
...
I'm extremely amateur, but I saw something a little surprising tonight
(between 8:40 and 8:50 PM mountain time) Looking at the moon through my
Celestron, there were two very bright white spots jsut *behind* the
terminator in Palus Nebularum. Tried taking some photos, but as my setup
is jamming a digital camera in the eyepeice, the results were
disappointing. The spots did not move over ten minutes. Changing the
eyepiece up and down in magnification did not get rid of them.A little
help?


Tonight I viewed what you saw and they are 2 magnificently high, triangular
mountains.
The shadows cast by them indicated this. I do not know the names of them.
I know them now
as the twin peaks.