[AZ-Observing] Moon Showing its X Tonight
- From: Jack Jones <telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: AZ-Observing <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:50:44 -0700
What year was that, I wonder? According to Phil Harrington, the effect was
named "the Lunar X" in 2004 by David Chapman, a Canadian amateur. It
snowballed from there. He did say Chapman's wasn't the first observation
tho, and was on the old Lick Obs hi-res photos and got into many pubs over
the years. My info is coming from a chart in Harrington's book (a real
magnum opus), "Cosmic Challenge", from software generated by the Lunar
Terminator Visualization Tool (search on LTVT) by Jim Mosher and Henrik
Bondo. The next suitable event is Feb 6 at 11:33 pm.
Jack
>Thank you for the heads up Jack! Was worth the trip out (you might have
picked a warmer less breezy night :-). The mention of "X" and "V" made me
smile as it brought back the memory of a time where I got to work on a
project (advertising campaign) for about a week with Jim Irwin (Apollo 15).
One of the things I remember him mentioning was one of the ways to identify
a genuine Apollo 15 mission patch, which was the crater stylized ")(" and
"|/" behind the flying arches. Heck they had the buggy up there, maybe Jim
and Dave did a few burnouts and brodies and left the "X" and "V" up there
:-P (Conspiracy theory alert ;-)
Thank you,
>Jimmy Ray
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