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Pictures By Jon Cesar
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09
Copernicus Crater
Restored image of Copernicus Crater. Credit: NASA/LOIRP
More imaging goodness is now available from the folks at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP), a cooperative effort between NASA and private business to give new life to some of the first ever close-up images of the Moon. When this image was originally released in November of 1966, it was called the “Image of the Century.” Taken by the Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft, 45.7 kilometers (28.4 miles) above the Moon’s surface, the image showed details of the interior of the crater Copernicus. Now, through the work of (LOIRP), the image has been remastered to show even more detail and the dramatic landscape within the crater.
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* not taken by ‘Shoals Astronomy Club’. – image and credit to, ‘universe today’.
The Shoals Astronomy Club was established February 16th, 2006. We at the Shoals Astronomy club are committed to excellence in the Shoals Area in areas related to and of observance of solar system and deep sky objects. This would include:The planets, the Sun, the Moon, and any and all deep sky objects. As a blogsite, site modification and update is limited to Shoals Astronomy Club members only. Residing President and Vice President are as follows: President- Mel Blake, Vice President-Matthew Sherrill, Secretary -Matthew Sherrill, Treasurer (temp), and club photographer – Roy Long, Public Relations Officer #1 – John Viescas, Public Relations Officer #2 – Matthew Sherrill; Astonomical League Correspondent (ALCOR) – Stan Peck; Blogsite – Stan Peck
The Shoals Astronomy Club is a community project, intended to support Amateur Astronomy in any way in the Shoals (Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia) area. Hopefully, those reading the Shoals Astronomy Club blogs will find information relevant, educational and of extreme benefit.
We all hope to further our understandings of Amateur Astronomy and become better acquainted with our Universe.
* As of January, 2008, the Shoals Astronomy Club is now associated with Mel Blake, PhD – Astronomy, at the University of North Alabama. We currently have a link from the University of North Alabama Website, giving us a site of our on: http://www2.una.edu/planetarium/shoalsastro.html. We hope to further our relations with the University of North Alabama in any we can.
** you can contact us at – (256) 335-2516 or email us at http://www.shoalsastronomyclub@gmail.com
With all this in mind, enjoy our Shoals Astronomy Club BlogSite!!!
