LOS OBSERVADORES LUNARES DE LA SOCIEDAD LUNAR ARGENTINA EN “THE LUNAR OBSERVER” DE JULIO 2022

 Nuevamente los observadores lunares somos protagonistas de la revista especializada en observación lunar más importante del mundo, The Lunar Observer (84 meses seguidos de observaciones y textos de nuestra asociación publicados allí)

La revista se puede descargar de la web de ALPO: 

http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/gallery3/var/albums/Lunar/The-Lunar-Observer/2022/tlo202207.pdf?m=1656637045

En la portada se referencian los artículos de miembros de la SLA aparecidos en este número (ya publicados en entradas anteriores, salvo la Sección Focus On, que aparecerá en una edición especial de “El Mensajero de la Luna”):

July 2022

In This Issue

Lunar Reflections, D. Teske 2

Observations Received 3

By the Numbers 5

ALPO Conference Announcement 6

Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina, A Different Trio, R. Benavides 7

The Principal Component Transformation Extracts Hidden Information From

Multiband Imager, D. Wilson 12

Jorge Luis Borges La Luna, shared by G. Scheidereiter 20

Jansen in the Terminator (and what a Slope Looks Like), A. Anunziato 22

Eratosthenes, R. Hill 24

Some Details on a Wrinkle Ridge in Mare Nectaris, A. Anunziato 25

Linné the Crater, R. Hill 27

How Small of a Lunar Craterlet Can Be Seen Through a Telescope? G. T. Nowak 28

Focus On: Wonders of the Full Moon: Northern Bright Ray Craters, A. Anunziato 38

Thales Ray System, R. H. Hays, Jr. 48

Recent Topographic Studies 84

Recent Topographic Studies: Lunar Eclipse 2022 May 16 108

Lunar Geologic Change Detection Program, T. Cook 109

Basin and Buried Crater Project, T. Cook 120

Lunar Calendar, July 2022 122

An Invitation to Join A.L.P.O. 122

Submission Through the ALPO Lunar Archive 123

When Submitting Image to the ALPO Lunar Section 124

Future Focus-On Articles 124

Focus-On Announcement: Wonders of the Full Moon 125

Focus-On Announcement: Ever Changing Eratosthenes 126

Key to Images in this Issue 127

 

En “Lunar topographical studies” se mencionan las siguientes observaciones (pág.3):

 

 

Name	Location and Organization	Image/Article
Alberto Anunziato	Paraná, Argentina	Article and images Wonders of the Full Moon: Northern Ray Craters, Jansen in the Terminator (and what the Slope Looks Like), Some Details on a Wrinkle Ridge in Mare Nectaris, images of Anaxagoras (2) and Copernicus (2).
Sergio Babino	Montevideo, Uruguay	Images of Bessel, Kepler and Plato.
Rafael Benavides	Posadas Observatory MPC J53, Córdo-ba, Spain	Article and Image Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina. A Different Trio.
Juan Manuel Biagi	Oro Verde, Argentina	Image of Kepler.
Don Capone	Waxahachie, Texas, USA	Images of Stöfler, Albategnius, Julius Caesar, Hadley-Apenninus, Alpine Valley and Posidoni-us.
Francisco Alsina Cardinalli	Oro Verde, Argentina	Images of Anaxagoras (2), Aristillus, Proclus, Menelaus, Eratosthenes, Copernicus, Aristar-chus (3), Plato, Mare Humboldtianum and Aris-tarchus.
Jairo Chavez	Popayán, Colombia	Images of the Waning Gibbous Moon (2), Wax-ing Gibbous Moon, Bessel and 61% Waxing Gibbous Moon.
Maurice Collins	Palmerston North, New Zealand	Images of the 4.8 day old Moon, southern high-lands, Theophilus, Mare Serenitatis, Delambre, 6 day-old Moon, 10.9 day-old Moon, Gassendi (2), Clavius and Plato.
Leonardo Columbo	Córdoba, Argentina	Image of the Full Moon
Jef De Wit	Hove, Belgium	Drawings of the Full Moon, Kepler and Proclus.
Massimo Dionisi	Sassari (Sardinia) Italy	Images of Messier, Petavius, Yerkes, Vitruvius (2), Aristoteles, Arago, Fracastorius and Cau-chy.
Walter Ricardo Elias	AEA, Oro Verde, Argentina	Image of the lunar eclipse,
István Zoltán Földvári	Budapest, Hungary	Drawings of Mare Australe, Mare Humboldtia-num, Flamsteed T, Reiner, Belkovich, Helmert, Liapunov, Riemann, Plinius and Mare Insu-larum,.
Desiré Godoy	Oro Verde, Argentina	Images of Anaxagoras, Proclus (2),Bessel and Harpalus.

 

Name	Location and Organization	Image/Article
Marcelo Mojica Gundlach	Cochabamba, Bolivia	Images of Copernicus (2),.
Robert H. Hays, Jr.	Worth, Illinois, USA	Article and drawing Thales Ray System.
Rik Hill	Loudon Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, USA	Images and articles Eratosthenes and Linné the Crater
Eduardo Horacek-Esteban An-drada	Mar del Plata, Argentina	Image of Herodotus.
Dominique Hoste	Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium	Images of Aristillus, Copernicus, Belkovich and Thales
Felix León	Santo Domingo, República Dominicana	Images of Aristillus and Proclus.
Gary T. Nowak	Williston, Vermont, USA	Article How Small of a Lunar Craterlet Can be Seen Through a Telescope?
KC Pau	Hong Kong, China	Image of Fra Mauro.
Jesús Piñeiro	San Antonio de los Altos, Venezuela	Images of Archimedes and Copernicus.
Raúl Roberto Podestá	Formosa, Argentina	Images of the Waxing Gibbous Moon (2).
Pedro Romano	San Juan, Argentina	Images of Mare Serenitatis and Copernicus.
Guillermo Scheidereiter	Rural Area, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Ar-gentina	The poem La Luna by Borges, images Moon by Day, Gassendi, Schiller and Moon at Sunset.
Fernando Surá	San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina	Image of Thales.
Michael Sweetman	Sky Crest Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, USA	Images of Heraclitus, Copernicus, Eratosthenes to Copernicus, Timocharis
David Teske	Louisville, Mississippi, USA	Image of Mare Frigoris, Lacus Mortis, Plato, Mare Serenitatis (2), Apollo 16 and Copernicus (3).
Román García Verdier	Paraná, Argentina	Images of Thales, Bessel and Aristarchus.
Darryl Wilson	Marshall, Virginia, USA	Article and images The Principal Component Transformation Extracts Hidden

 

Y se seleccionaron las siguientes imágenes para ilustrar la sección:

Raúl Roberto Podestá (Formosa, Argentina): Luna en cuarto menguante:

Jesús Piñeiro (Venezuela): Aristillus

 

En la Sección “Lunar Geological Change Detection Program” (páginas 109 y siguientes), se reportan nuestras observaciones:

 

Routine Reports received for May included: Jay Albert (Lake Worth, FL, USA – ALPO) observed: Al-phonsus, Kies, Lambert Gamma, and Sasserides H. Alberto Anunziato (Argentina – SLA) observed: Aris-tarchus, Atlas, the Lunar Eclipse, the Lunar Poles, Manilius, Menelaus, Mare Serenitatis, Mons Piton, Oce-anus Procellarum, Riccioli, and Tycho. Massimo Alessandro Bianchi (Italy – UAI) imaged: Campanus and Plato. Maurice Collins (New Zealand – ALPO/BAA/RASNZ) imaged: Archimedes, Aristarchus, Clavius, Copernicus, Letronne, Mare Humorum, Marius, Schickard, Schiller, Sinus Iridum, Tycho, and several fea-tures. Alexandra Cook (Spain) imaged the lunar eclipse. Anthony Cook (Newtown – ALPO/BAA) videoed earthshine in visible light and SWIR (1.1-1.7 microns), and also imaged several features in the visible, SWIR and in the thermal IR. Walter Elias (Argentina – AEA) imaged: Gassendi and Plato. Valerio Fontani (Italy – UAI) imaged: Campanus, Herschel and Plato. Di Giovanni Giovanni (Italy – BAA) imaged the lu-nar eclipse. Massimo Giuntoli (Italy – BAA) observed: Cavendish E. Rik Hill (Tucson, AZ, USA – ALPO/BAA) imaged: Eratosthenes, Hortensius, the Lunar Eclipse, and Plato. Mark Radice (near Salisbury, UK – BAA) imaged: Flammarion and Ptolemaeus. Aldo Tonon (Italy – UAI) imaged: Campanus, Herodotus, Heschel, and Lichtenberg. Trevor Smith (Codnor, UK – BAA) observed: Aristarchus, Bullialdus, Cassini, earthshine, Eudoxus, Mare Humorum, the north pole region, Plato, Proclus, Ptolemaeus, Tycho and the west limb. Aldo Tonon (Italy – UAI) imaged: Campanus, Herodotus, Herschel, and Lichtenberg. Fabio Verza (Italy – UAI) imaged: Campanus, Eudoxus, Herodotus and Herschel.

 

Una observación visual de Alberto Anunziato de Grimaldi hasta el limbo durante el último eclipse lunar permitió analizar exhaustivamente un reporte de FLT (Fenómeno Lunar Transitorio) de 1964 (páginas 116 a 118), cuyo resultado fue la eliminación del mismo de la base de datos.