I just got back in from a short session with the Galileoscope. I put a webcam on the back and took a couple of videos of the Moon. here is my favorite.
The Moon is near full again as it was for my previous session (purely coincidental...I want to try this near first quarter!) which means you don't get lots of nice shadows from mountains and craters. I wish Youtube would do a better job of processing the video as some neat features are more prominent in the original. I want to point out the three craters at the top of the Moon near the end of the video. Look closely on the bottom one and you can see its central peak!
Remember to order your Galileoscope!
Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicst Blog.
WE'VE BEEN MOONED!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool!
ReplyDeleteI really do want to get one ( maybe 2) of those.
ReplyDeleteHale, I thought of you last night as I was driving home. The moon was just rising and looked so cool. A friend of mine called and asked if I had seen it and, yes, of course, I had. When I got home though, I could not get a clear view of it to snap a pix. It looked so beautiful as it was rising!
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