[AZ-Observing] Fw: Today's LROC Featured Image from Brent Archinal
- From: "Jennifer Polakis" <m24@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "EVACONLINE" <EVAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:37:47 -0700
Hi All,
Pretty cool stuff from our very own Brent Achinal. Brent is a geodosist at the
USGS in Flagstaff and a great amateur astronomer. He makes talks at the
astroclubs and gets out observing when he gets a rare bit of time. Among the
million other projects he's working on, he is figuring images from the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter's cameras which have been photographing the Moon in very
high resolution since ~last Spring; he's also working with the Mercury
Messenger and co-authored _Star Clusters_--a seminal work of information on
open and globular clusters. Anyway...check this out! Wow!
Jennifer
----- Original Message -----
From: Brent A Archinal
Cc: barchinal@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:38 PM
Subject: Today's LROC Featured Image from me...
Just wanted to send out a general message about today's (April 13) Featured
Image on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website. Today's image and
write-up were prepared by me. See the main page (for today) at
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/ or the full layout at the April 13 entry of:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/?archives/180-The-Apollo-15-Lunar-Laser-Ranging-Retroreflector--A-Fundamental-Point-on-the-Moon!.html
This is about a close-up image of the Apollo 15 landing site, which shows the
laser retroreflector array that was left on the Moon, that is still used as a
fundamental point for determining latitude and longitude on the Moon.
- Brent
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