Pictures of Moon's Surface.

From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon? When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert

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From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon? When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert

There have undoubtedly been many craters created in the past years, but all
of them are too small to be resolved from Earth. As a matter of fact on
November 15, 1953 Dr. Leon Stuart observed what is believed to be an actual
meteor impact event on the Moon. Recently I've read they've indeed
positively identified the crater created by the impact from high resolution
Moon satellite data (could be Clementine, but don't take my word for it).
Perhaps someone might have a bit more info on this?


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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon? When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert

There have undoubtedly been many craters created in the past years, but all
of them are too small to be resolved from Earth. As a matter of fact on
November 15, 1953 Dr. Leon Stuart observed what is believed to be an actual
meteor impact event on the Moon. Recently I've read they've indeed
positively identified the crater created by the impact from high resolution
Moon satellite data (could be Clementine, but don't take my word for it).
Perhaps someone might have a bit more info on this?


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(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in
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From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions
of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon?

Well amateur astronomers do. (Not sure about armature ones though). The
pictures are often featured in Sky and Telescope and Astronomy magazines
and there are plenty of websites out there. Here's an example which you
could have found yourself faster than you typed out you query:

http://users3.ev1.net/~glennlray/Astro/moon.html

Learn to use Google.


When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert


None large enough to be seen from Earth. There would be plenty of small
ones.

Llanzlan.

(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in
:

From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions
of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon?

Well amateur astronomers do. (Not sure about armature ones though). The
pictures are often featured in Sky and Telescope and Astronomy magazines
and there are plenty of websites out there. Here's an example which you
could have found yourself faster than you typed out you query:

http://users3.ev1.net/~glennlray/Astro/moon.html

Learn to use Google.


When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert


None large enough to be seen from Earth. There would be plenty of small
ones.

Llanzlan.

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From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon?

Why does a dog lick its balls?


When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert

No doubt small impact craters (craterlets? ) have added to the already
staggering total. Most of them by micrometeorites, as most if not nearly
all craters on the Moon visible from earth are a remnant of a time when
the solar system was in its infancy and not something for a serious boy or
girl without a hard hat.




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(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in alt.astronomy:

From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon?

Why does a dog lick its balls?


When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert

No doubt small impact craters (craterlets? ) have added to the already
staggering total. Most of them by micrometeorites, as most if not nearly
all craters on the Moon visible from earth are a remnant of a time when
the solar system was in its infancy and not something for a serious boy or
girl without a hard hat.




--
CeeBee


Uxbridge: "By God, sir, I've lost my leg!"
Wellington: "By God, sir, so you have!"


Google CeeBee @ www.geocities.com/ceebee_2

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(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in alt.astronomy:

From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon?

Why does a dog lick its balls?

Because you wouldn't let him lick yours?

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(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote in alt.astronomy:

From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon?

Why does a dog lick its balls?

Because you wouldn't let him lick yours?

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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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From Earth and with the nice 8" armature telescopes own by millions of
armature astronomers do they take pictures of the Moon? When I was a
kid I made a 4" telescope,and went to my roof and just looked at the
Moon,every night all summer long. I was hoping to see a new crater. It
never happened. Can I ask has there been any new creates on the Moon"s
surface in the last 60 years? Bert

There have undoubtedly been many craters created in the past years, but all
of them are too small to be resolved from Earth. As a matter of fact on
November 15, 1953 Dr. Leon Stuart observed what is believed to be an actual
meteor impact event on the Moon. Recently I've read they've indeed
positively identified the crater created by the impact from high resolution
Moon satellite data (could be Clementine, but don't take my word for it).
Perhaps someone might have a bit more info on this?

I'm fairly sure the "1953" crater has been identified in photos taken
before then, so it's no longer a good candidate, but IIRC Lunar Orbiter
imaged the crater produced by one of the Ranger probes. The
high-resolution cameras planned in the next few years should be able to
image the Apollo Saturn IV-B impact craters.
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