Alpine shadows and the Apollo 15 landing site

Ben wrote:
Forgive my egregious omission. (I got kicked off
line twice while cobbling together the last message.)
I'm sure you know

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Actually, I don't visit it regularly. I probably could have guessed
it, though.

And they have it archived under Mar 23, 2007.

That's the part I wanted to know...thanks! (And sorry if my terse
request seemed rude--that wasn't intentional.)

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Pete Lawrence wrote:
Hi all,

Here are a couple of shots taken from the 26th March. The first is of
some dramatic alpine shadows together with the Vallis Alpes...


http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/2...pped-vallis_al
pes.jpg

The second is of the Hadley Rille region on the Moon, which is where
Apollo 15 landed...

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/lunar/2...mae-Hadley.jpg

Digging around, I came up with an interesting shot of the site taken
from lunar orbit during the Apollo 15 mission. The orientation and
lighting are not too dissimilar.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...adley_Rille.jp
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Claudio Grondi replied:
Excellent pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

Sorry for this question (hope not to attract trolling replies here), but
do you think, that with better equipment and a series of pictures it
were possible to obtain the last picture with its details also from the
Earth surface?

Excellent indeed. I don't suppose it would be possible to match the
Apollo photo from the Earth. It would at least require a large
telescope, a very good sky, much luck, and probably many exposures.

Nonetheless, to my eye Mr. Lawrence's photos do not suffer very much in
comparison to the Apollo photo.

Davoud

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Ben wrote:


Splendid,
Keep up the good work,
Ben


Seconded!

Your images are truly inspiring to me - and I'm sure to many others here
- well, apart from one ;-)

Please keep posting them!!

Cheers,

Jeff