moon scape

astrobaja · 03-11-11, 11:36 PM

Hi all,

Shot this image with my telescope tonight using a type of low light video camera. Its actually a stack of 150 images compiled from a video sequence. An area of the moon with rilles formed by vocanic activity many millenia ago. Small details are about 500 meters in diameter.

Taken here close at the edge of the sierra San Pedro Martir.

BajaGringo · 03-12-11, 08:37 AM

Wow - that is soooo cool! They almost look like fault lines...

longlegsinlapaz · 03-12-11, 10:21 AM

Amazing!!!! I'm never posting another moon pic!! astrobaja....your pic puts blows my moon shots into astro debris!!

astrobaja · 03-12-11, 11:05 AM

Thanks Ron, nice to have eyerything setup in the observatory! Makes it all so much easier!

Actually the wider rille in the bottom right of the image (Ariadaeus) IS a fault type of structure. Geologists call them graben. Graben form when opposing horizontal forces pull apart with enough strength that parallel faults form, and the terrain between them drops.
(quote from Charles Woods -The Modern Moon)

Good observation Ron!

LonglegsinlaPaz: thanks!! But please keep posting your moon pics!!! My setup is VERY specialized, I think telephoto pics of the moon with a DSLR and an artfull foreground is very cool! My setup with the telescope is a 5500mm focal length, I can't do wideangle!

BajaGringo · 03-12-11, 05:46 PM

So there are earthquakes on the moon?

longlegsinlapaz · 03-13-11, 10:02 AM

Hmmmmmmm.....me thinks the moon probably has moon-quakes since the earth already copyrighted the term earthquake!

astrobaja · 03-13-11, 10:29 AM

Yep no moonquakes for quite a while, the moons been geologicaly dead for about 3 billion years! Most of the features craters, rilles, impact basins were all formed during the birth of our solar system 4 bill years ago. It was a violent place to be I imagine!

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l..._interior.html

BajaGringo · 03-13-11, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

Hmmmmmmm.....me thinks the moon probably has moon-quakes since the earth already copyrighted the term earthquake!

My bad!

astrobaja · 03-14-11, 01:10 PM

Heres one I shot last night from my observatory, its a mountain range know as the Apennines, the little curvy rille along the upper part of the mtn range is known as Hadley rille, thats where Apollo 15 landed. It must have been a spectacular decent coming in over that mountain range!

03-11-11, 11:36 PM	#1
astrobaja Join Date: 08-28-10 Posts: 19	moon scape Hi all, Shot this image with my telescope tonight using a type of low light video camera. Its actually a stack of 150 images compiled from a video sequence. An area of the moon with rilles formed by vocanic activity many millenia ago. Small details are about 500 meters in diameter. Taken here close at the edge of the sierra San Pedro Martir. Attached Thumbnails

03-12-11, 08:37 AM	#2
BajaGringo Status: Queso Grande Join Date: 02-09-09 Location: San Quintin Posts: 7,148	Re: moon scape Wow - that is soooo cool! They almost look like fault lines... __________________ TalkBaja.com - Where everybody knows your name and nobody stays on topic...

03-12-11, 10:21 AM	#3
longlegsinlapaz Join Date: 05-24-09 Location: La Paz Posts: 1,682	Re: moon scape Amazing!!!! I'm never posting another moon pic!! astrobaja....your pic puts blows my moon shots into astro debris!!

03-12-11, 05:46 PM	#5
BajaGringo Status: Queso Grande Join Date: 02-09-09 Location: San Quintin Posts: 7,148	Re: moon scape So there are earthquakes on the moon? __________________ TalkBaja.com - Where everybody knows your name and nobody stays on topic...

03-13-11, 10:02 AM	#6
longlegsinlapaz Join Date: 05-24-09 Location: La Paz Posts: 1,682	Re: moon scape Hmmmmmmm.....me thinks the moon probably has moon-quakes since the earth already copyrighted the term earthquake!

03-13-11, 10:29 AM	#7
astrobaja Join Date: 08-28-10 Posts: 19	Re: moon scape Yep no moonquakes for quite a while, the moons been geologicaly dead for about 3 billion years! Most of the features craters, rilles, impact basins were all formed during the birth of our solar system 4 bill years ago. It was a violent place to be I imagine! http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l..._interior.html

03-14-11, 01:10 PM	#9
astrobaja Join Date: 08-28-10 Posts: 19	Re: moon scape Heres one I shot last night from my observatory, its a mountain range know as the Apennines, the little curvy rille along the upper part of the mtn range is known as Hadley rille, thats where Apollo 15 landed. It must have been a spectacular decent coming in over that mountain range! Attached Thumbnails

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