Showing posts with label apollo 16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apollo 16. Show all posts

Friday, April 03, 2009

Cayley Plains again.

The seeing was not very good today, a lot of shimmering, but here is the Apollo 16 landing site again 24 hours later. You can just about make out the white deposits from South Ray crater.
The white smudge just below the centre of the image.

Below is a panorama that I've produced from images taken by the Apollo 16 crew of South Ray crater. Credit ALSJ

Who's Idea was it not to visit this crater?

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Apollo 16 landing site.

The Cayley plains is just left of centre. The Apollo landing site is almost dead centre. Just in between the gap of those mountains.
This is a 4 image mosaic, taken with C9.25, 2.5 x TV Powermate, red filter and DMK21AF04AS. Processed in Registax 5 and CS4.
The seeing was average.
I went out the night before to collimate the scope after all the fun and games with the secondary mirror and guess what? it didn't need any :-0

4 x Imagemate frame:-

Here is a reference image from Clementine data:-

... and a view from the ground:-

Link to large mapping camera image AS16-M-0162.