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February 29, 2020

The Lunar Observer March 2020

The March 2020 issue of The Lunar Observer, newsletter of the ALPO Lunar Topographical Studies & Selected Areas Program, and the Lunar Geological Change program is available at http://moon.scopesandscapes.com/tlo. Back issues are also available at http://moon.scopesandscapes.com. As always, thanks so much for the contributors and readers of The Lunar Observer. In the March 2020 issue, we have some rather remarkable articles. Jerry Hubbell concludes is Focus-On section of the ALPO selected regions craters with a discussion of Tycho and Herodotus. Robert H. Hays Jr. brings a timely and very nice article and drawing of Herodotus. Alberto Anunziato gives us two articles. The first is an article and drawing about Hipparchus C. The second is a fascinating historical research about an event on the Moon seen in 577. This was the first LTP ever listed. Darryl Wilson continues his thermal imaging articles with an article about Thermal Imaging of Tycho. His articles of thermal imaging have stirred up much interest lately. The Gardner Megadome is a very interesting area of the Moon to observe. It is the subject of two in-depth articles by Howard Eskildsen and Raffaello Lena. Rik Hill and David Teske continue their wanderings of a remarkable lunar moonscape with images and articles. Sixteen observers contributed articles to the Recent Topographic Studies Program. Tony Cook as always has contributed an interesting article about Lunar Geologic Change. Thanks again to all who contributed. I hope that you can get out and enjoy some wonderful moon observations.

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David Teske
Acting Coordinator, Lunar Topographic Studies Program
Assn of Lunar & Planetary Observers

 
 

December 4, 2019

December 2019 TLO is available

The December 2019 issue of The Lunar Observer, newsletter of the ALPO Lunar Topographical Studies & Selected Areas Program, and the Lunar Geological Change program is available by clicking here. Back issues are also available at http://moon.scopesandscapes.com.
In the December 2019 The Lunar Observer look for some interesting articles about lunar domes, both from the Raffaello Lena, Carmelo Zannelli, Maximilian Teodorescu and Jim Phillips article about lunar domes near the craters Hall and Luther along with several images and articles about domes from Howard Eskildsen. John Sabia takes us on a tour of the Moon with a 9.5-inch Alvin Clark refractor, though Damian Peach’s image of Plato through a 1 m telescope is also quite the view. Sounds like dream telescopes for such a purpose. As always, Tony Cook provides an engaging article about lunar geologic change. Tours of the lunar topography are presented in short articles, drawings, and images throughout this issue. Enjoy and have fun observing our nearest neighbor in space.
David Teske
Acting Coordinator, Lunar Topographic Studies Program
Assn of Lunar & Planetary Observers

 
 

November 10, 2019

Domes Luther and Hall

Two lunar domes, located near the craters Luther and Hall (which we termed Luth1 and Hall1), have been imaged and studied.
The morphometric characteristics of these domes have been examined by making use of a combined photoclinometry and shape from shading approach and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) WAC image, including LOLA DEM data set. A full spectral analysis based on Chandrayaan-1 Moon Mineralogy Mapper is in progress.
The Lunar Domes section encourages more high-resolution imagery of this wide lunar region so that we can have more data to identify further lunar domes not characterized in the morphometric and spectral properties yet.
Please click here to read the preliminary report.

Raffaello Lena
Coordinator, Lunar Domes Program
Assn of Lunar and Planetary Observers

 
 

October 12, 2019

Image request for lunar dome in Promontorium Laplace

A lunar dome in Promontorium Laplace has been imaged by Maximilian Teodorescu from Romania. The excellent CCD terrestrial image taken by Teodorescu, under oblique solar illumination, displays the dome termed La 1 very well, demonstrating as high resolution CCD imagery of the elusive lunar domes is useful for the recognition of non-cataloged domes.
The Lunar Domes section encourages more high-resolution imagery of this area. Please click here to read the preliminary note of the dome near Promontorium Laplace, including a description of the spectral analyses.

Raffaello Lena
Coordinator, Lunar Domes Program
Assn of Lunar and Planetary Observers

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