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Archive for the ‘moon’ CategoryThe moon will be at perigee (the closest point in the moon’s orbit around earth each month) at precisely 11:37UT today, the closest perigee in 2009, orbiting roughly about 357, 298 kilometers from earth°. It will also be a full moon tonight (January 11th, 03:27UT), but that happens about 16 hours later. For those in [...] For those of you in the world who may have caught tonight’s crescent moon: here’s a brief, janky glimpse from a basic flipcam I hand held through a 150mm (6 inch) reflector with a 35mm eyepiece. The battery ran out while it was drifting below the horizon. Nasa CoLab recently hosted the twelfth Luna Philosophie salon, with guest Brian Day, Educational Technology Technical Lead at NASA Ames Research Center, who gave a great mission briefing on the coming LRO/LCROSS mission to search for water and landing sites for an antarctic station on the moon. NASA CoLab was set up to help build [...] |
        
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