060 Moon Musings – High Adventure With Closeups of Apollo 15 – Luna 2 – and the Alps
BEST WATCHED AT 1080p – Great session and High Adventure. Join me as I do live video up close and personal of the Apollo 15 and Luna 2 landing sites. I also explore the Montes Apeninus (alps) and do a complete survey of the moon with a Barlow. I do a slow pan of the shadow line and bring out lots of detail on a great night for viewing the moon.
Great video of the moons I bet it doesn’t get really cold where you are like around here over the weekend we have at clear nights and days but with it being winter the temperature drops at night to -4° C at night and that is too cold to get the telescope are as much as I love you in the moon because the moon rises at such a late hour. I’m thinking of getting the celestron 2 inch eyepiece kit for a wilder field of view anyway keep the good work and clear skies
@davesworld85100 Thanks for the comments Dave! The temperature last night was in the high 30s. My telescope is on the porch outside but I run it remote from a cozy warm house. The 2 inch lenses are pretty expensive so I stay with the smaller stuff for now. Maybe I will try them someday. Thanks for watching my video!
Love these moon museings, keep up the great work
@el1zabuff Thanks for the nice comments El1za! And thanks for watching my video!!!
@jivebop
Hi Bill
another fantastic video with fantastic information, i dont quite understand why the blue cast was happening, something to do with atmospherics and the harvest moon affect ?.
it is strange that the start base isnt there any more.
you zoomed into area that you said maybe a crashed craft , to me it looked like two areas/bases are connected by some type of roadway/tunnels or something like that.
again fantastic stuff bill, thanks.
why is it we have no color images from the journey and landing on the moon? this is brilliant
@doctorofart Doctoro I believe that they deliberately took color out of the moon shots – as they do NOT want anyone to think that this is anything but a dead object. If it had color then everyone would be looking for life and artifacts – something NASA does not want to encourage!!! Thanks for the kind thoughts and thanks for watching!
Great video, I was thinking this is what I’d be seeing if I were able to get my hands on a decent telescope. Thank you for sharing what you’re seeing. Odd to find a good video on GLP.
@djyewsten Djyewsten thanks for the nice comments. I normally do not post my videos on GLP but on occasion I do because there is a LOT of interest in the moon on GLP. With Trinity’s’ telescope etc. I thought it might be a good place to occasionally post my videos. It is rare that I do but this particular video turned out so spectacular I thought I would. Thanks for the comments and thanks for watching!!!
@jivebop You’re very welcome, I am also enjoying your commentary as the video progresses. Do you post videos often? I’m going to subscribe and continue to watch what you’re doing. Thank you again for posting this, I haven’t seen the moon like this before. GLP often times leads me to dead ends, so damn happy today. High Adventure indeed!
@djyewsten Djyewsten I try to do videos of the moon every night – weather permitting. If it is too cloudy or windy it doesn’t work. I have 60 moon videos so far and you can start at the beginning and follow my learning curve. I try different cameras. This last video is one of my best and really blows you away when watched on a large screen TV at 1080p. Thanks for the nice comments!
Freaking AMAZING
@TheCountdownBackUp Thanks Henning. This was probably one of the best I have ever done - thanks to extremely clear atmospherics. You are doing a terrific job and if you really look at your videos now and compare them from way back yours are really full of color and detail as well. Thanks for the nice comments and thanks for watching my video!!!
Great vid’ again Bill – What I see in this one are
1.Many craters with raised areas in their centers
2.Very shallow craters for large impacts
3. Craters that seem lined along curves – more than what appears random impacts…
What are your thoughts on these things?
Cheers – Alex –
PS – Oh btw, good to see StarbaseBill again (you’re a star even in bad conditions-lol)
PPS- Hurry up and get that 14 inch
Awesome just awesome and thumbs up…Bravo Clap Clap love the video
@AlexFate101 Thanks for commenting Alex! To give you a perspective of distance: The Apollo 15 landing site was that dark shadowed area in the alps. I showed you a small crater just to the 4 o’clock position that was CONON crater. This crater is 21 km wide or 13 miles. The crater is about the width of the dark area. So I was really getting in close in this video, easily seeing things much less than 1/4 mile wide! Some of the specks or boulders we saw were less than 1320 feet!!
Barlow 3x arrived today, so did BAD weather, freezing now, suposed to snow and then ice over.
So Im losing the chance tonight which were kinda last chance. Moon 17% luminous tonight tomorrow 7% tomorrow probably not better weather, Barlow is mounted ready to go in and be real personal. 4mm and 3x Barlow,plus 10x zoom what magnification does that apply to on a 90mm telescope?
@jivebop I remember the first lego video I watched from you. It was inspiring! I miss all the old videos and the awesome creations and kits you showed us. I wish it was those times again where you made mind blowing creations and the fun videos! I haven’t seen a video for a long time until I found a really old comment reply from you and I seen the 2011 up date video. I have a question: What did you do with all of your toys and lego? Thanks- Your biggest fan!
@barnbarn122 I still have a lot of the models and tons of Erector sets and FisherTechnique but sold most of the Lego except for my MindStorms stuff. I appreciate you looking me up on my new channel as I am now doing the Moon thing. Thanks for the thoughtful comments and thanks for watching my video!!!
@cardoworld22 Thanks for the nice comments and thanks for watching my video!!!
@TheCountdownBackUp Henning glad you got the Barlow! We are also in the soup outside of Houston – RAIN and heavy clouds for a week. Looks like it will be into the weekend. I will be out there next time it is Clear Skies! I have a difficult time with figuring out magnification. There are focal length formulas out there. I am anxiously waiting to see the results of the new lens Henning!!!
@jivebop My mag as standard is 313 times.
with 3x Barlow i have 939 times.
Found a site to calculate it.
focal 1250 – appereture 90, eyepiece 4mm = 313
@jivebop weather shitty here to