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The moon
I have been spending the early evenings using my telescope to observe mars, moon and perhaps the passing of the first chinese spaceflight (if they launch the next two weeks). Using some craters and plains (seas ?) on the moon as reference points I have tried to determine which way the moon rotates. It just hangs up their like one of those pictures, no matter where viewed from in the room it stares back at you.
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Re: The moon
In response to Nighthiker's reply:
Great stuff, isn't it? The best look at the moon I ever got was using a 16" telescope at ASU on a full moon night. We also took a peek at Mercury, Venus, Mars, saturn and Jupiter. For stars we took a good look at Betelgeuse, Orion, sirius A and B, the Pleiades, Orion nebula and a few other clusters and binary star systems. Way cool.
The plains on the moon are referred to as Mares - the latin word for sea, so you are essentially correct.
Also - the moon does rotate, however, the moon is in lock step with the Earth's rotation and always shows the same face toward earth all the time. While it may seem counterintuitive to say that the moon rotates, but keeps the same face towards us - remember that the moon revolves around the earth, so in it's revolutions it is rotating in relation to the sun.
Go and check this out. It is one of my favorite sites on the web. (Linking to it is spotty - they have a lousy server.)
Great stuff, isn't it? The best look at the moon I ever got was using a 16" telescope at ASU on a full moon night. We also took a peek at Mercury, Venus, Mars, saturn and Jupiter. For stars we took a good look at Betelgeuse, Orion, sirius A and B, the Pleiades, Orion nebula and a few other clusters and binary star systems. Way cool.
The plains on the moon are referred to as Mares - the latin word for sea, so you are essentially correct.
Also - the moon does rotate, however, the moon is in lock step with the Earth's rotation and always shows the same face toward earth all the time. While it may seem counterintuitive to say that the moon rotates, but keeps the same face towards us - remember that the moon revolves around the earth, so in it's revolutions it is rotating in relation to the sun.
Go and check this out. It is one of my favorite sites on the web. (Linking to it is spotty - they have a lousy server.)
'Weird is a relative, not an absolute.' - A. Einstein
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