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You probably know the "moon face" that appears to the naked eye from bright and dark surface areas of the full moon. But a telescopic view of Mare Imbrium shows another face on Earth's natural satellite!
This image was captured using the 10" f/16 refractor (4 m focal length) of the Volkssternwarte München with a Canon M50 MkII DSLM camera in prime focus. I recorded a 4K/25 fps video of about 3.5 minutes length, and stacked the 5% best images. The night was quite clear and seeing was, at least every now and then, quite good. The moon being high up in the sky also helped a lot.
The image material was good enough to not only deliver a crisp and detailed image (you can clearly see the Hadley Rille, where Apollo 15 landed. If you look very closely, you can even guess parts of the central rille of Vallis Alpes, which is less then one kilometer wide!), but also to increase color saturation and produce a selenochromatic image, or "mineral moon". The colors represent the varying composition of the lunar surface, where reddish tones are iron-rich, and blueish tones are titanium-rich.
I also tried marking some landmarks on the moon. Feel free to add, or correct mine if I made a mistake! (edit: this seems to work only in the browser version, not in the Android Flickr app.)
Image informatin:
Telescope: 10" f/16 Schaer refractor, Volkssternwarte München
Camera: Canon M50 MkII, unmodified
Raw data: 4K MP4 video, 25 fps, 3:27 min
Stacking: AutoStakkert!3
Sharpening: iterative Gauss sharpening, fitswork
Final touch: Luminar 2018
Such magnificent birds...always a joy to see Red Kites☺️
Red Kite
The reintroduction of the red kite to England and Scotland has been one of the major conservation success stories of the last 20 years.
In the early 1930s, only two breeding pairs of red kites were known to survive in the British Isles, both in central Wales.
Careful protection of the Welsh kites helped the native population increase slowly, with 20 breeding pairs in 1967, 30 in 1978, 50 in 1988 and 80 in 1992.
Today the Welsh population is thought to number between 750 and 900 pairs.
The first reintroductions of red kites to England and Scotland took place in 1989, with the English introductions in the Chilterns, the Scottish birds on the Black Isle.
Reintroduced birds bred for the first time in both England and Scotland in 1992.
The English population increased rapidly, as birds started breeding at one year old, unlike Welsh birds that often don't breed until their third summer. In addition, clutches were larger, with more young fledged per pair than in Wales.
Following the success of the early introductions, new releases followed at a number of different sites, including Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway.
The reintroductions succeeded because the habitat was able to support a healthy population. The birds had been exterminated because of persecution, not loss of habitat.
It was the advent of the breech-loading shotgun that led to the kite's final demise in England, where a long-stranding war had been waged against these birds, with bounties paid by parishes for kite bills.
Illegal poisoning remains a threat to carrion eating birds like kites, even though the bait may have been laid to kill foxes and crows. In 2007, there were 12 confirmed cases of kites being poisoned in Scotland.
Historically, the kite was associated with towns and cities; here it was valued as a scavenger, helping keep streets clean.
Shakespeare makes several references to kites, such as Autolycus in The Winters Tale, warning that when the kite builds, look to lesser linen. This is a reference to the thieving habits of nest-building kites.
Kites hunt on the wing, soaring and circling over open ground. They are mainly carrion eaters, but are quite capable of killing small mammals and birds.
Road-casualty pheasants, rabbits and squirrels form an important part of the diet of the reintroduced kites in England.
However, considering their size they are not very powerful, though they have been recorded robbing much bigger raptors, such as white-tailed eagles, of their prey.
In the Chilterns, the kites' enthusiasm for carrion is valued by deer stalkers, who leave the entrails from shot deer for the kites to clean up.
Kites are surprisingly lightweight. In the spring, adults weigh around 900gm, which is considerably less than a mallard.
Though Britain's kite population is booming, this is not the case in many other European countries, where numbers are generally in sharp decline.
It is thought that Britain's kite population could eventually reach around 50,000 pairs, which is more than double the current world population.
Old English names for the kite range from puttock to gled and glead; a number of place names, such as Gleadthorpe in Northamptonshire and Gledehill in Yorkshire, are reminders of these names
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51.542 Long -3.593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Tal 2x Barlow Lens, ZWO ASI 120MC. Captured using Firecapture
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
The region between Montes Causasus and Montes Apenninus, main craters are (top to bottom) Aristiteles, Eudoxus, Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus and Archimedes
Celestron Edge HD11, ASI120MM camera, 685nm IR pass filter
Processed with AS!2, Registax6 and PS CS6 - 3 panel mosaic
A shot of the northern hemisphere of the waxing gibbous Moon taken in Ortigia, Sicily. This image features Crater Aristoteles in Mare Frigoris and Crater Eudoxus in Montes Caucasus. Also featured are Vallis Alpes, Crater Archimedes, Crater Aristillus, and Crater Autolycus in Mare Imbrium. Mare Serenetatis is at the bottom of the image.
Best 80% of 1,000 frames captured with FireCapture and processed in PIPP, Registax, and Photoshop.
Equipment:
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
Alt-Az Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera
Pure as the driven snow............................................................................
The complete phrase 'as pure as the driven snow' doesn't appear in Shakespeare's writing, but it almost does, and he used snow as a symbol for purity and whiteness in several plays. In The Winter's Tale, 1611:
Autolycus: Lawn as white as driven snow.
As pure as the driven snow In Macbeth, 1605:
Malcolm: Black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow.
Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy your weekend!
Archimedes, Aristillus, Autolycus.
Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope, Explore Scientific 127 -f/15. Player One Ceres C camera - Filter IR685 2022-10-03 - 23:45 UT.
Zona Rural, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
This is a 2 panel mosaic of a section of the 64.2% phase at 9:49 p.m. Archimedes just coming out of the terminator on the left, Aristillus and Autolycus with their rims fully illuminated but still filled with cold darkness. Cassini nicely illuminated and Aristoteles and Eudoxus bathing in the blasting lunar heat. Portions of Mare Imbrium, Mare Frigoris and Mare Serenitatis in the FOV, and the unmistakable rim of Imbrium consisting of Montes Apenninus, Montes Caucasus and Montes Alpes with their higher altitude features brightly illuminated and casting distant shadows. Even looks like the Apollo 15 site surrounded by a perfectly timed shadow.
Each panel is the best 25% of 4,000 captured frames with Autostakkert, Some wavelets applied with Registax 6, cropped, fine tuned and hand-assembled in Photoshop CC 2015.
Montes Alpes showing Vallis Alpes with large craters Aristoteles (top) Eudoxus, Cassini (triple) , Aristillus, Autolycus.
Montes Apenninus enters the frame just below center left and swoops upward and rightward toward upper left of the frame. Nestled among the center of this range is the Apollo 15 landing site.
The range is surrounded by dark mare. Dominating the left is Mare Serenitatis. Bottom center is Mare Vaporum. In the lower left corner is Sinus Aestuum. And upper right is Mare Imbrium.
Crater Eratosthenes terminates the left end of the range, and nearby Crater Copernicus' ejecta rays come in from the lower left edge.
The trio of prominent craters at top center, from largest to smallest, are Archimedes, Aristillus, and Autolycus.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 60% of frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Apollo 15 - 70mm Hasselblad Camera / Magazine 96
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Stitched and adjusted in Photoshop CC 2019
Autolycus Crater
Mare Imbrium
Sinus Lunicus
Found this image lurking within my hard drive. Taken last year over 9 days after new moon it shows the large crater Archimedes with its lava filled flat floor. Some smaller craters within are resolved. Archimedes is around 85km in diameter.To the right of Archimedes (top) is Aristillus with its central peaks of around 900m high. The walls of the crater are steep and a ray system can be seen emanating from the crater. Aristillus is around 54km in diameter. Below Aristillus and forming the last point of this triangle, lies Autolycus. Around 39km in diameter Autolycus has very steep slopes & high walls within which Autolycus A can be seen on the right. The sun was high over these craters when this image was taken and any shadows within are much reduced.
Crescent moon - about 7 to 8 days old and 46% illumination.
Partially cloudy conditions.
Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina near the middle.
Notable craters near the terminator, from N to S, are: Aristillus, Autolycus, Hipparchus, Halley, Albategnius, Stofler, Faraday, Licetus and Cuvier.
The clair-obscur effect, Lunar X, is visible, below centre, at the terminator, on the rim of the Blanchinus, La Caille and Purbach craters.
The Lunar V is also visible, just above centre, near the terminator, formed by Ukert crater and several other small craters.
Nikon D7000 video at prime-focus on 127mm Maksutov.
.MOV file converted to .AVI in PIPP.
Stacked 50% best frames with AutoStakkert.
Wavelets in Registax.
Cropped, rotated, Curves adjusted in NXStudio.
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This is as close as I can get with my set up which I think is pretty cool, but I pay for using using the 3x Barlow by losing some sharpness, especially when combined with the wobbly alt-az mount rather than the rock-steady EQ5. Still this is one came out reasonably well considering the circumstances. It's a shot of the northern hemisphere of the Moon taken in Ortigia, Sicily. This image features Crater Aristoteles in Mare Frigoris and Crater Eudoxus in Montes Caucasus. Also featured are Crater Cassini with Craters Cassini A and Cassini B inside. Crater Aristillus, and Crater Autolycus in Mare Imbrium are featured on the left of the image and Mare Serenetatis is at the bottom of the frame.
Best 80% of 1,000 frames captured with FireCapture and processed in PIPP, Registax, and Photoshop.
Equipment:
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
Alt-Az Mount
ZWO ASI120 MC imaging camera
x3 Barlow lens
A nice photo-mosaic of lunar images taken by Mariner 10 shortly after launch.
~8.5” x ~11”. From the estate of Eric Burgess.
From the following extract of the online version of NASA SP-424, “The Voyage of Mariner 10”. Additionally, the image, linked to below, was used in Figure 5-9:
“…Very soon after launch, the planet-viewing experiments were turned on, a first time for planetary missions. The aim was to calibrate the instruments in the well-known environment of the Earth-Moon system. The charged particle telescope was turned on within 3 hours of liftoff, the ultraviolet experiment within 7 hours, and the TV cameras shortly thereafter. First TV pictures of Earth were obtained 16 hours and 15 minutes after liftoff.
There were some problems. The two thermal strap-heaters surrounding the aluminum lens barrels of the cameras were designed to hold the camera system at a temperature of 4 to 15°C (40 to 60°F). But they failed to operate as programmed following launch. Mission controllers, watching the engineering data coming back to the Mission Operations Center, saw that the heaters were not activated. Quickly a command was sent to the spacecraft to deactivate the heaters and then to activate them by triggering the relay switch, which seemed to have stuck. Nothing happened. The telescopes continued to cool down.
There was concern that without the heaters operating the television cameras would cool down too much and affect sensitive optics so as to distort pictures of the planets and cause a degradation of camera focus. Part of the problem was caused by the screening of the spacecraft against solar heating. It was so protected by a sunshade and by surface coatings and thermal blankets that when the camera heaters failed to come on, the cameras began to cool. Engineers from JPL and Boeing studied the problem to determine how heat might pass from the rest of the spacecraft in place of that missing from the heaters. They found that the thermal insulation of the spacecraft was so good that there was no way to heat the cameras from the spacecraft itself. The fall in temperature had to be lived with. They also checked the backup spacecraft poised at Cape Kennedy in an attempt to determine what might have caused the relay to stick. Had this problem degraded the spacecraft capability to an unaccepted degree, it would have been necessary to launch the backup.
Fortunately, the cooling stabilized at an acceptable level, and the cameras did maintain their sharp focus. The lens elements and the optical tube elements were self-compensating to changes in temperature. But an ever-present danger was that the Invar rods might contract, fracturing the vidicon potting compound if the temperature fell below -40°C ( - 40°F). Project scientists halted this temperature drop by keeping the vidicons switched on to maintain some heat within the cameras. Normally the vidicons would have been rested in the cruise between the planets, but it was considered prudent to change this mode of operation and take the chance that the lifetime of the vidicons might be shortened somewhat rather than risk the cameras' becoming too cold. This [47] being done, the temperature of the cameras stabilized, at low but livable values-the vidicons were about -10°C ( + 14°F), the backs of the optics were -20°C ( - 4°F ), and the telescope fronts were about -30°C ( - 22°F).
Mariner's cameras transmitted good pictures of the Earth and the Moon despite the temperature problem. The pictures of Earth (Fig. 5-2) provided stereo photographs of clouds with revealing depth and structure. They appeared to be the clearest pictures yet received from a television camera in space. If the spacecraft returned similar-quality pictures from Venus, the project could obtain a completely unprecedented look at the brilliant clouds of that mysterious planet.
In all, Mariner 10's cameras provided a series of five Earth mosaics (Fig. 5-3) within the first few days of flight. These mosaics revealed intricate cloud patterns at about the same resolution expected during the Venus flyby. The Earth pictures could provide valuable comparisons with the Venus clouds. Earth observations also provided in-flight verification of the cameras' "veiling glare" performance, thus confirming that the preflight calculations of settings of camera exposures for Venus were correct. This was important, since Venus encounter geometry did not allow an incoming far-encounter sequence to check the exposures.
Another problem arose almost at the beginning of the flight when, on November 5, the plasma science experiment was turned on. Scientists were surprised to find that no solar wind particles were being observed. There appeared to be a good vacuum in the detectors, and the device was scanning back and forth as it should. Engineers performed a series of tests and sequences of switching commands without positive results. One possibility was that the instrument door had failed to open so that plasma could not enter the detector. Another was that the high-voltage sweep was stuck at the high end, thus permitting only a few high-energy particles to register. The operation of this experiment was, unfortunately, restricted throughout the mission, and it was concluded that the protective door had failed to open fully. However, plasma data were obtained by the scanning electron spectrometer part of the instrument, which was unaffected by the failure of the door.
As the spacecraft left Earth, the ultraviolet air glow instrument looked back at the home planet, observing the same emission regions that it expected to check later at Venus and Mercury. Lyman-alpha hydrogen emission was recorded, together with helium emission at 584 angstroms.
All subsystems of the spacecraft were performing exactly as expected. The trajectory was also very good; less than 8 m/see (27 ft/sec) of the spacecraft's total maneuvering capacity of 120 m/sec (396 ft/sec) was expected to be needed to move the Venus aiming point of the spacecraft and change the arrival time about 3 hours to bring Mariner 10 to its later pass within 1000 km (600 mi) of Mercury's surface.
Mariner 10's series of five Earth mosaics was intermixed with six mosaics of the Moon (Fig. 5-4) within the first week of flight as calibration tests for the Mercury encounter. The path of Mariner allowed images to be obtained of the north polar region of the Moon (Fig. 5-5), which, because of constraints on paths of other space vehicles, had previously been covered only obliquely. The Mariner 10 photographs provided a basis for cartographers to improve the lunar control net, the relationship of points on the lunar surface one to another in precise definitions of lunar latitude and longitude of craters and other features. The exercise in lunar cartography provided a useful prelude to applying the same techniques to map Mercury using the images to be obtained during the flyby.
Diagnostic tests were conducted on November 6, including photography of stars (Fig. 5-6) and additional tests on the Moon (Fig. 5-7). The Moon tests, as well as providing better information about how the TV system was performing, allowed scientists to evaluate the practicality of proposed measurements of the diameter of Mercury. At this stage of the mission, optical performance of the television system continued to be good even though the TV optics had not yet stabilized in temperature. As of November 7, Mariner 10 had returned almost 900 pictures to Earth. Experimenters were enthusiastic about the excellent quality. The Moon pictures recorded objects a mere 3 km (2 mi) across (Figs 5-8 and 5-9 ).
history.nasa.gov/SP-424/p53.jpg
Since the pictures to be returned from Mercury were expected to be of three times higher resolution than those of the Moon, there was good reason for excitement. At last, it seemed, mankind would have a chance to resolve those dusky markings on the innermost planet, those indistinct features that earlier astronomers had interpreted as Marslike, even erroneously with linear "canal" type features. Another test conducted was photographing the Pleiades cluster in the constellation of Taurus: a galactic cluster in the Milky Way which is visible to the unaided human eye as seven faint stars and is often called the "Seven Sisters". These stars are about 20,000 light years from the Sun and are immersed in nebulosity. A total of 84 pictures were taken, verifying the focus of the television system.”
Above at:
This image contains two historic landing sites.
Luna 2 was the Soviet Unions second craft launched to the moon and the first ever craft to land on another body.
Apollo 15 was the ninth manned moon mission undertaken by the US and the first to use the Lunar rover.
The three large craters are:
Archimedes - 83km
Aristillus - 55km
Autolycus - 39km
and the mountain rage to the bottom of frame are the Montes Appeninus.
Scope: SW150P with x3 Barlow
Camera: QHY5L-II
La luna ripresa sempre lunedì 7 aprile, purtroppo il seeing pessimo non ha permesso un numero maggiore di dettagli e la messa a fuoco sempre difficoltosa, qui possiamo vedere un tratto degli appennini, con il cratere archimedes, Aristillus, e Autolycus
The moon always shooting Monday, April 7, unfortunately the bad seeing did not allow a greater number of details and the focus always difficult, here we can see a stretch of the Apennines, with the crater archimedes, Aristillus, and Autolycus
Creative early Aerojet-General ‘combination’ photograph/artist’s concept. I believe this to be an actual photograph, looking through the thrust chamber of a Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine - manufactured by the company for the Apollo Program - at an artist’s concept positioned behind it. Appropriately enough, the artist’s concept depicts the SPS engine firing, probably during the critical Trans-Earth Injection (TEI) burn, enabling the crew to begin their journey back to earth. Made possible because of their engine, which did indeed perform flawlessly every time it was called upon.
The distinctive SPS exhaust plume confirms it to be Aerojet-General’s immensely talented resident artist, George Mathis, aka “A. Tinker”. The narrowing aperture and the presence/configuration of mounting bolt holes not only confirms it to be the SPS thrust chamber, but that the view is (logically) in the direction of thrust. Note also the ablative material coating the interior of the thrust chamber.
Expectedly, extensive external engine detail is rendered at the base of the Service Module, to even include the aft end of two propellant tanks, along with feed lines. However, the detail/components visible were to eventually be internal to the Service Module. Finally, note the strakes protruding from opposing sides of the Command Module & what appears to possibly be the/another? high-gain antenna. If so, its positioning, apparently at the forward portion of the Service Module, is something I haven’t seen before. Along it, yes, but not that far forward, or so it looks…to me. Artistic license?
Due to having been matted, the photograph has been, cleanly at least, trimmed to 7 ½” x ~10 ⅜”, and the verso possibly laminated.
Good stuff:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/CSM17_Service_Propulsion_Subsystem_p...
Credit: ALSJ website
airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/apollo-service-modu...
Credit: Smithsonian NASM website
HERMES LOVES Ἑρμης Hermês Hermes Mercury HERMES was the great Olympian god of herds, travel, trade, heraldry, language, athletics and thievery.He had numerous lovers in myth, although most of these appear only in the ancient genealogies with no accompanying story.The most famous of his loves were the Nymph Penlopeia (mother of Pan), and the maids Herse of Athens, and Khione of Phokis. The only metamorphosis story in this genre was the obscure tale of his love for Krokos (the crocus flower), echoing that of Apollon and Hyakinthos. DIVINE LOVES APHRODITE The Goddess of Love was seduced by Hermes with the help of Zeus and a stolen sandal. She bore him a son named Hermaphroditos.
BRIMO A Goddess of the Underworld (probably Hekate), whose virginity was lost to Hermes on the banks of the Thessalian Lake Boibeis. DAEIRA An Underworld goddess who mated with Hermes and bore him a daughter (or son) named Eleusis. She may be the same as Brimo mentioned above, in which case her name is probably a title for Hekate or Persephone. PEITHO The Goddess of Persuasion whom Hermes took as his bride.
PERSEPHONE The gods Hermes, Ares, Apollon and Hephaistos all wooed Persephone before her marriage to Haides. Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the gods. SEMI-DIVINE LOVES (NYMPHAI) KARMENTIS An Arkadian (of Southern Greece) Naias Nymphe who was loved by Hermes. She bore him a son Euandros, with whom she emmigrated to Latium (in Italia). NYMPHE (UNNAMED) A Nymphe of Sikelia (Sicily, Southern Italia) who bore Hermes a son named Daphnis. [see Family] OKYRRHOE A Naias Nymphe of Teuthrania (in Asia Minor) who bore Hermes a son named Kaikos. [see Family] OREIADES, THE Nymphai of the Mountains were said to mate with Hermes in the highlands, breeding more of their kind. PENELOPEIA An (Oreias) Nymphe of Arkadia (in Southern Greece) who bore to Hermes the god Pan (or one of the Panes named Nomios). RHENE A (Naias) Nymphe of the island of Samothrake (in the Greek Aegean) who bore a son Saon to Hermes. [see Family] SOSE An Oreias Nymphe of Arkadia (in Southern Greece) and Prophetess of the god Hermes. She bore him a son the pan Agreus. TANAGRA A Naias Nymphe of Argos (in Southern Greece) for whom the gods Ares and Hermes competed in a boxing match. Hermes won and carried her off to Tanagra in Boiotia. MORTAL LOVES (WOMEN) AGLAUROS A Princess of Attika (Athens) (in Southern Greece) who bore Hermes a son, Keryx. [see Family] AKALLE A Princess of Krete (in the Greek Aegean) loved by Hermes. She bore him a son named Kydon. [see Family] ALKIDAMEA A Princess of Korinthos (in Southern Greece) who bore Hermes a son named Bounos. [see Family] ANTIANEIRA A woman of Alope in Malis (Northern Greece) who bore Hermes two sons: Ekhion and Eurytos. [see Family] APEMOSYNE A Princess of Krete (and later Rhodes) (in the Greek Aegean) who was impregnated by Hermes. When her brother discovered she was pregnant with child he kicked her to death. APTALE A woman who was the mother of Eurestos by Hermes. [see Family]
ERYTHEIA A Princess of Iberia (in Southern Spain) who bore Hermes a son Norax. [see Family] EUPOLEMIA A Princess of Phthia (in Northern Greece) who was loved by Hermes. She bore him a son Aithalides. [see Family] HERSE (aka KREUSA) A Princess of Attika (in Southern Greece) who was loved by Hermes and bore him a son Kephalos.
IPHTHIME A Princess of Doris (in Thessalia, Northern Greece) who was loved by Hermes and bore him three Satyroi - named Pherespondos, Lykos and Pronomos. KHIONE (aka PHILONIS) A Princess of Phokis (in Central Greece) who made love to two gods, Hermes and Apollon, on the same night. To Hermes she bore a son Autolykos. KHTHONOPHYLE A Queen of Sikyonia (in Southern Greece) who bore Hermes a son named Polybos. [see Family] KLYTIE A woman or nymph of Elis (Southern Greece) who was the mother of Myrtilos by Hermes. His mother is also named as Theoboule. [see Family]
LIBYE A Princess of Libya (in North Africa) or Nauplia, Argolis (in Southern Greece) who bore Hermes a son named Libys. [see Family] PENELOPE A Queen of Ithaka (in Southern Greece) and wife of Odysseus. Acording to some, she was the mother by Hermes of the god Pan (most acccounts, however, say that is was a Nymphe of the same name that bore the god). PHYLODAMEIA One of the fifty Princesses of Argos (in Southern Greece) known as the Danaides. She was loved by Hermes and bore him a son Pharis. [see Family]
POLYMELE A Lady of Phthiotis (in Northern Greece) who bore Hermes a son, Eudoros.
THEOBOULE A woman of Elis (in Southern Greece) who bore Hermes a son, Myrtilos. [see Family] THRONIA A Princess of Aigyptos (or Egypt, in North Africa) who bore Hermes a son, named Arabos. [see Family] MORTAL LOVES (MEN) AMPHION A King of Thebes in Boiotia (Southern Greece) who, according to some, was loved by Hermes. KROKOS An Arkadian boy (of Southern Greece) who was loved by Hermes. When the god accidentally killed him playing discus, he transformed the boy into a crocus flower. PERSEUS A Hero and Prince of Argos (in Southern Greece) who, according to some, was a male lover of Hermes. HERMES LOVES: APHRODITE SEDUCED IN EGYPT Pseudo-Hyginus,
"Mercurius [Hermes] stirred by Venus's [Aphrodite's] beauty, fell in love with her, and when she permitted no favours, became greatly downcast, as if in disgrace. Jove [Zeus] pitied him, and when Venus [Aphrodite] was bathing in the river Achelous he sent and eagle to take her sandal to Amythaonia of the Egyptians and give it to Mercurius [Hermes]. Venus [Aphrodite], in seeking for it, came to him who loved her, and so he, on attaining his desire, as a reward put the eagle in the sky [as the constellation Aquilla].THEIR CHILD
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 6. 5 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"Hermaphroditos, as he has been called, who was born of Hermes and Aphrodite and received a name which is a combination of those of both his parents."Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 288 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"To Mercurius [Hermes], runs the tale, and Cythereia [Aphrodite] a boy was born whom in Mount Ida’s caves the Naides nurtured; in his face he showed father and mother and took his name from both. When thrice five years had passed, the youth forsook Ida, his fostering home, his mountain haunts, eager to roam strange lands afar."Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3. 21-23 (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) :"Engendered form the sea-foam, we are told she [Aphrodite] became the mother by Mercurius [Hermes] of the second Cupidus [literally Eros, but Cicero is probably referring to Hermaphroditos]."HERMES LOVES: DAEIRA / BRIMO Brimo and Daeira were possibly titles of the goddess Hekate who as a Goddess of the Underworld and of the Eleusinian Mysteries was closely associated with Hermes Guide of the Dead. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 38. 7 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :"The hero Eleusis, after whom the city is named, some assert to be a son of Hermes and of Daeira, daughter of Okeanos."Propertius, Elegies 2. 29C (trans. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st B.C.) :"Brimo, who as legend tells, by the waters of Boebeis laid her virgin body at Mercurius' [Hermes'] side."HERMES LOVES: PEITHO
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 8. 220 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :"If quikshoe Hermes has made merry bridal with you, if he has forgotten his own Peitho [his wife]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 230 ff :"Lord Hermes . . . entered the delicate bed of Peitho who brings marriage to pass."HERMES LOVES: PERSEPHONE Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 562 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) : "All that dwelt in Olympos were bewitched by this one girl [Persephone], rivals in love for the marriageable maid, and offered their dowers for an unsmirched bridal. Hermes had not yet gone to the bed of Peitho, and he offered his rod as gift to adorn her chamber [as bride-price for her hand-in-marriage, but all offers were declined by her mother Demeter]."HERMES LOVES: THE OREIADESHomeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 256 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) :"The deep-breasted Mountain Nymphai [Oreades] who inhabit this great and holy mountain . . . with them the Seilenoi and the sharp-eyed Argeiphontes [Hermes] mate in the depths of pleasant caves."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 105 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :"The horned Satyroi were commanded [when Rheia summoned divinities to join Dionysos in his war against the Indians] by these leaders [various Satyroi sons of the Seilenoi are named] . . . With Pherespondos walked Lykos the loudvoiced herald, and Pronomos renowned for intelligence - all sons of Hermes, when he had joined Iphthime to himself in secret union. She was the daughter of Doros, himself sprung from Zeus and a root of the race of Hellen, and Doros was ancestor whence came the Akhaian blood of the Dorian tribe. To these three, Eiraphiotes [Dionysos], entrusted the dignity of the staff of the heavenly herald, their father the source of wisdom." HERMES LOVES: KARMENTISPseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 277 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :"First Inventors . . . The Greek letters Mercurius [Hermes] is said to have brought to Egypt, and from Egypt Cadmus took them to Greece. Cadmus [not Kadmos but Euandros, son of Hermes and Karmentis] in exile from Arcadia, took them to Italy, and his mother Carmenta changed them to Latin to the number of 15."HERMES LOVES: PENELOPEIA & SOSEHomeric Hymn 19 to Pan (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th to 4th B.C.) :"Hermes . . . came to Arkadia . . . there where his sacred place is as god of Kyllene. For there, though a god, he used to tend curly-fleeced sheep in the service of a mortal man, because there fell on him and waxed a strong melting desire to wed the rich-tressed daughter of Dryopos [Penelopeia or Sose], and there he brought about the merry marriage. And in the house she bare Hermes a dear son [the god Pan] who from his birth was marvellouse to look upon, with goat's feet and two horns - a noisy, merry-laughing child. But when the nurse saw his uncouth face and full beard, she was afraid and sprang up and fled and left the child. Then luck-bringing Hermes received him and took him in his arms: very glad in his heart was the god."Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca E7. 39 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :"Some say that Penelope [wife of Odysseus] was seduced by Antinous [one the suitors], and returned by Odysseus to her father Ikarios, and that when she reached Mantineia in Arkadia, she bore Pan, to Hermes." [N.B. Penelope, wife of Odysseus, is confounded with Penelopeia, the Arkadian nymphe.]Herodotus, Histories 2. 153. 1 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) :"Pan is held to be the youngest of the gods . . . and Pan the son of Penelope (for according to the Greeks Penelope and Hermes were the parents of Pan) was [first worshipped in Greece] about eight hundred years before me [Herodotus], and thus of a later date than the Trojan war."Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 224 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :"Mortals who were made immortal . . . Pan, son of Mercurius [Hermes] and Penelope."Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 67 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :"Panes, the sons of Hermes, who divided his love between two Nymphai; for one he visited the bed of Sose; for one he visited the bed of Sose, the highland prophetess, and begat a son inspired with the divine voice of prophecy, [the Pan] Agreus, well versed in the beast-slaying sport of the hunt. The other was [the Pan] Nomios, whom the pasturing sheep loved well, one practised in the shepherd's pipe, for whom Hermes sought the bed of Penelopeia the country Nymphe."HERMES LOVES: TANAGRA Corinna, Fragment 666 :
"For your [Tanagra's] sake Hermes boxed against Ares."
HERMES LOVES: APEMOSYNE LOCALE: Rhodes (Greek Aegean)Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 14 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :"[Althaimenes grandson of Minos] left Krete with his sister Apemosyne and went to a certain place on Rhodes . . . Not long after that he became the murderer of his sister. For Hermes developed a passion for Apemosyne; proving unable to catch her as she ran from him (she was swifter of foot than Hermes!), he strewed some newly stripped hides along the road, on which she slipped as she was returning from the spring. He then raped her. When she disclosed to her brother what had happened, Althaimenes took her story about the god to be an excuse, and killed her with a kick of his foot."HERMES LOVES: HERSE Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 180-181 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Kekrops married Agraulos, daughter of Aktaios, and had a son Erysikhthon . . . and three daughters, Agraulos, Herse, and Pandrosos . . . Herse and Hermes had Kephalos, whom Eos developed a passion for and kidnapped. They had sex in Syria [and became ancestors of the kings of Kypros]."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 160 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Sons of Mercurius [Hermes] . . . Cephalus by Creusa [probably the same as Herse], daughter of Erechtheus."Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 552 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st
"Caducifer [Hermes] rose soaring on his wings, and in his flight looked down upon the land [of Attika] that Minerva [Athene] loves and the Munychian fields and the Lyceum's cultivated groves. It chanced that day was Pallas' festival [the Panathenaia] and virgins carried, in the accustomed way, in baskets, flower-crowned, upon their heads the sacred vessels to her hilltop shrine. As they returned the winged god saw them there and turned aside and circled overhead, like a swift kite that sees a sacrifice and, while the priests press round the victim, waits circling afraid, yet dares not go too far, and hovers round on hungry wings; so Cyllenius [Hermes] above the citadel of Actea wheeled his sweeping course in circle after circle through the air. Even as Lucifer (the morning star) more brilliant shines than all the stars, or as golden Phoebe (the Moon) outshines Lucifer (the morning star), so Herse walked among her comrades, lovelier than them all, the fairest jewel of the festival. Jove's son [Hermes], breath-taken by her loveliness, was kindled as he hovered, like a lead slung from a Balearic sling, that as it flies glows with its speed and finds below the clouds heat not its own. Swerving, he left the sky and flew to earth, and there took in disguise - such trust in his good looks! Yet though his trust was sound, he spared no pains; he smoothed his hair, arranged his robe to hang aright, to show the whole long golden hem, saw that his wand, the wand he wields to bring and banish sleep, shone with a polish, and his ankle-wings were lustrous and his sandals brushed and clean. The house possessed in a secluded wing three chambers, richly inlaid with ivory and tortoiseshell. The right was the abode of Pandrosos, Aglauros on the left and Herse in between.Aglauros first marked Mercurius' [Hermes'] approach and boldly asked the god his name and business. To her question Atlantis Pleione’s grandson answered: ‘I am he who bears his father's mandates through the sky. My father’s Juppiter [Zeus] himself. I'll not invent a reason. Only, if you'll be so good, stand by your sister and consent to be aunt to my child. For Herse’s sake I’m here; favour a lover’s hope!’She looked at him with those hard eyes that spied not long ago fair-haired Minerva's [Athena's] mystery, and asked a golden fortune for her services, and pending payment forced him from the house. The warrior goddess [Athena] turned her angry eyes upon the girl and heaved a sigh so deep that breast and aegis shuddered. She recalled it was Aglauros whose profaning hand laid bare that secret when the oath she swore was broken [for she looked into the box containing the baby Erikthonios that Athena had left in the three sister's care but forbidden them to open] and she [Aglauros] saw the infant boy [Erikhthonios], great Lemnicola's [Hephaistos'] child, the babe no mother bore; and now she would find favour with the god and with her sister too, and grow so rich with all that gold her greed had planned to gain. Straighway she [Athena] sought the filthy slimy shack were Invidia (Envy) dwelt [and summoned her to lay her curse upon the girl] . . . Tritonia [Athena] filled with loathing, forced a few curt words: ‘Inject your pestilence in one of Cecrops’ daughters; that I need; Aglauros is the one.’ . . . Into the room of Cecrops' child she [Invidia] went and did as she was bid. On the girl's breast she laid her withering hand and filled her heart with thorny briars and breathing a baleful blight deep down into her bones and spread a stream of poison, black as pitch, inside her lungs. And lest the choice of woe should stray too wide, she set before her eyes her sister's [Herse's] face, her fortune-favoured marriage and the god so glorious; and painted everything larger than life. Such thoughts were agony: Aglauros pined in private grief, distraught all night, all day, in utter misery, wasting away in slow decline, like ice marred by a fitful sun. The happiness of lucky Herse smouldered in her heart like green thorns on a fire that never flame nor give good heat but wanly burn away. Often she'd rather die than see such sights; often she meant, as if some crime, to tell the tale to her strict father.In the end she sat herself outside her sister’s door to bar Cyllenius' [Hermes'] access. With honeyed words he pressed his prayers and pleas. ‘Enough’, said she, ‘I’ll never move till you are forced away!’ ‘A bargain!’ cried the god and with his wand, his magic wand, opened the door. But she found, as she tried to rise, a numbing weight stiffened her muscles; as she strained to stand upright, her knees were stuck; an icy chill seeped through her limbs, the blood paled in her veins. And as an evil growth beyond all cure creeps far and wide and wounds what once was well, so by degrees the winter of dark death entered her heart and choked her breath and stopped the lanes of life. She did not try to speak, nor, had she tried, was way still left for words. Her throat, mouth, lips were hardened into stone; and there, a lifeless statue she remained, nor was it white, but with her dark thoughts stained. Such was punishment that Atlantiades [Hermes] death Aglauros for her wicked words and will. Then, leaving Athens, Pallas' fabled land, he made his way to heaven on beating wings."
HERMES LOVES: KHIONE Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 8. 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :"Autolykos, who lived on Mount Parnassos, and was said to be a son of Hermes, although his real father [the man who raised him] was Daidalion."Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 200 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :"Apollo and Mercurius [Hermes] are said to have slept the same night with Chione, or, as other poets say, with Philonis [an alternative name for Chione], daughter of Daedalion. By Apollo she bore Philammon, and by Mercurius [Hermes], Autolycus. Later on she spoke too haughtily against Diana [Artemis] in the hunt, and so was slain by her arrows. But the father Daedalion, because of his grief for his only daughter, was changed by Apollo into the bird daedalion, that is, the hawk."Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 201 :"Mercurius [Hermes] gave to Autolycus, whom he begot by Chione, the gift of being such a skilful thief that he could not be caught, making him able to change whatever he stole into some other form."Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 301 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"[Daidalion son of Hesperos, god of the evening-star,] had a daughter, Chione, a girl most blessed with beauty’s dower, her fourteen years ready for marriage, and her hand was sought by countless suitors. Phoebus [Apollon], as it chanced, and the son of Maia [Hermes], on their way back, the one from Delphi, the other from Cyllene's crest, both saw her, both alike caught love's hot fire.Apollo delayed till night his hopes of love; Mercurius [Hermes] would not wait and with his wand that soothes to slumber touched her on the lips; touch-tranced she lay and suffered his assault. Night strewed the sky with stars; Phoebus [Apollon] took the guise of an old woman and obtained his joys - forestalled. Her womb fulfilled its time and to the wing-foot god a wily brat was born, Autolycus, adept at tricks off every kind, well used to make black white, white black, a son who kept his father’s skill. To Phoebus there was born (for she had twins) Philammon, famed alike for song and lyre. What profit was it to have pleased two gods, produced two boys, to have a valiant father, a shining grandfather?Is glory not a curse as well? A curse indeed to many! To her for sure! She dared to set herself above Diana [Artemis], faulting her fair face. The goddess, fierce in fury, cried ‘You’ll like my actions better!’ and she bent her bow and shot her arrow, and the shaft transfixed that tongue that well deserved it [for her sacrilege]. Then that tongue was dumb, speech failed the words she tried to say: her blood and life ebbed away.
Sadly I [King Keyx, brother of Daidalion] held her, feeling in my heart her father’s grief, and gave my brother words of comfort, for he loved her - words he heard as rocks the roaring waves – and bitterly bewailed his daughter's loss. Yes, when he saw her on the pyre, four times an impulse came to rush into the flames; four times forced back, he fled away in frenzy; like an ox, its bowed neck stung by hornets, so he charged where no way was. His speed seemed even then faster than man could run, and you'd believe his feet had wings. So fleeing from us all, with death-bent speed he gained Parnassus' crest.
Apollo [and probably Hermes], pitying, when Daedalion threw himself from a cliff made him a bird, and held him on sudden hovering wings, and gave him a hooked beak, gave curving claws, with courage as of old and strength that more than matched his body's build. And now a hawk, benign to one, he vents his savagery on every bird and, as in grief he goes, ensures that others grieve and share his woes. [N.B. the hawk was a bird sacred to both Apollon and Hermes.]"HERMES LOVES: POLYMELE Homer, Iliad 16. 181 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : "The next battalion [of Akhilleus' Myrmidones] was led by warlike Eudoros, a maiden's child, born to one lovely in the dance, Polymele, daughter of Phylas; whom strong Hermes Argeiphontes loved, when he watched her with his eyes among the girls dancing in the choir for clamorous Artemis of the golden distaff. Presently gracious (akaketa) Hermes went up with her into her chamber and lay secretly with her, and she bore him a son, the shining Eudoros, a surpassing runner and a quick man in battle. But after Eileithyia of the hard pains had brought out the child into the light, and he looked on the sun's shining, Aktor's son Ekhekles in the majesty of his great power led her to his house, when he had given numberless gifts to win her, and the old man Phylas took the child and brought him up kindly and cared for him, in affection as if he had been his own son."HERMES LOVES: KROKOSHermes accidentally killed his lover Krokos in a game of discus, and transformed his body into the scarlet crocus flower. The myth is similar to that of Apollon and Hyakinthos.The story is not currently quoted here.HERMES LOVES: AMPHIONLOCALE: Thebes, Boiotia (Central Greece) Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. 10 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :"My own opinion is that Hermes gave Amphion these gifts, both the [magical] lyre and the headband, because he was overcome by love for him."HERMES LOVES: PERSEUS The reference in which Perseus is described as a lover of Hermes is not currently quoted here. Homer, The Iliad - Greek Epic C9th-8th BC The Homeric Hymns - Greek Epic C8th-4th BC Greek Lyric I Corinna, Fragments - Greek Lyric C5th BC Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
Herodotus, Histories - Greek History C5th BC Pausanias, Guide to Greece - Greek Geography C2nd AD Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History C1st BC
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines - Greek Art History C3rd AD Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd AD Hyginus, Astronomica - Latin Mythography C2nd AD Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD Cicero, De Natura Deorum - Latin Philosophy C1st BC Propertius, Elegies - Latin Elegy C1st BC Nonnos, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th AD
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A close up look at a bit of the moon. The cleft in the surface is the Vallis Alpes, cutting through the peaks of the Montes Alpes. The crater with two smaller craters inside it is Cassini while in the lower right of the image the 55km wide crater Aristillus and 36km wide Autolycus can be seen.
The bright peak standing out 2.3km from the plain is Mons Piton.
With the Sun at a low elevation then long shadows are cast over the lunar landscape.
“The machine above is capable of carrying a crew of several people to a point beyond the rear of the moon, claims Dr. Wernher von Braun in the current issue of Collier's magazine.”
Also at:
dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/03/colliers-march-22-1952...
Credit: Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera website
The photograph (in color) was featured in the March 22, 1952 issue of Collier’s Magazine, pages 32 & 33, with the caption:
"Specifically designed round-the-moon ship hovers 200 miles above lunar surface as space scientists take close-up photographs. One-way journey from station in space will take five days to cover 239,000 miles. Never-seen face of the moon is to right. Trip will have to be timed so that sun lights hidden side."
Another is:
"The first trip to the moon will be without landing, in a ship designed to travel in space only, taking off near the Space Station and returning to it. Here the round-the-moon ship is some 240,000 miles from earth, 50 miles above the lunar surface. The large crater is Aristillus (diameter 35 miles); the other crater is Autolycus; the distant mountains are the lunar Apennines. [51]" The image being most likely used in another publication, as plate 51?
Credit: contributor 'magnus z' at the SECRET PROJECTS/Unbuilt Projects, Military and Aerospace Technology website, at www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5033.0
Informative and entertaining reading!
The above description is accurate/correct, not the Collier's original. And, neither here nor there, but the Apollo 15 landing site is somewhere in the background of this depiction, near the lunar limb.
Yet another, and I find this mildly interesting:
This exact illustration is reproduced (as plate/figure XX) - minus the 'round-the-moon' ship - in the book "MAN AND THE MOON", written/commentary by Robert S Richardson, with illustrations attributed to Chesley Bonestell, published 1961. The accompanying description in the book being "Looking south toward Aristillus (foreground) and Autolycus from 50 miles above the surface. Palus Putredinus and the Appennine Mountains can be seen in the distance. The time is sunset."
Lastly...and this is cool. Bid now!!! ;-)
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/space-and-ex...
Credit: Sotheby's
The upper frieze shows the wedding of Laertes and Anticlea, daughter of Autolycus. An Ionic column splits the scene into two parts. To the left, Laertes, naked with a cloak hanging from his arms, is leaning with his right hand on a long spear, while his left takes the hand of Anticlea. The bride is depicted standing, wearing chiton, cloak and veil on her head adorned with a diadem. To the right of Laertes, the artist has depicted a naked man with cloak hanging from his left shoulder and spear in his left hand; his right hand performs the typical gesture of someone speaking. Three other male characters close the scene.
On the right of the Ionic column, near a large hydria, Autolycus, father of Anticlea, is standing. The mature man is represented as bearded, half naked with a cloak covering the lower body and the left shoulder; in his left hand he holds the scepter. He is going to receive a leaf from a naked warrior with spear in his left hand. The name of Sisyphus, ΣΙΣΥΦΟΣ, is painted on the leaf. This detail alludes to the expedient devised by Sysiphus for detecting the cattle that the future Laertes step- father stole to him. On the right, there are two standing women, richly dressed with chiton, cloak, veil and tiara on their heads. Probably they belong to Autolycus' court.
The frieze is very much in the late-fifth-century style that the first generation of Athenian vase-painters brought with them to South Italy. It is a style unfortunately characterized by exceedingly languid young men (and women).
Apulian red figured volute krater
Attributed to The Sisyphus Painter
ca 420 BC
From Canosa di Puglia
Munich, Antikensammlungen.
From a cropped region of an image taken with C9.25 Edge HD and ASI183mm camera with a 610nm filter at 03:25 UT, March 26, 2018.
Image of entire lunar disk is available here: flic.kr/p/24kaJZH
Area around Montes Caucasus and Montes Alpes 8" f/10 SCT and ASI120MM camera
Processed using AS!2, Registax 6 & PS CS6
ASI290MM, Astronomik ProPlanet 807 IR-pass filter, Sky-Watcher 2xbarlow, Sky-Watcher Skyliner 350P Flextube.
“This is a relief map of the landing site made by the U. S. Army Photographic [Topographic] Command. The landing site is here several kilometers east of Hadley Rille. The Apennine Mountains are off the relief map further off to the east. There five objectives at the landing site: The first and primary objective is to sample the mountain front. At this particular place the Apennine Mountains for a slight bow to the west so that the mountains which are further off to the east here come around and we are able to sample south of the landing site some of the Apennine front material. That is the primary objective of the mission. The secondary objective of the mission is to study the rille itself. The sinuous, meandering rilles on the moon are an enigma at this time. The third objective is to look at the mare itself. We are now quite a bit further north than any of the other mares we visited. This is in particular a very dark mare. It may be one of the youngest mares that we can visit on the moon. The fourth objective is the north complex. The most probable interpretation at this time is that this is a volcanic complex. There are other interpretations possible. The sampling will take place at several points in the north complex. And the final objective is this cluster of craters southeast of the landing site, and these are believed to be secondaries from the large craters, Autolycus and Arostyllus [Aristillus], which are much further to the northwest within the Mare Imbrium itself.”
With the above task list, it’s a testament to David Scott’s professionalism, commitment and dedication to becoming an astute student & practitioner of geology/geological observation. Not that I expect anyone to do it, but if you watch - listen actually - to his commentary & observations while on moon, it’ll blow you away, especially if you’re a Geologist. I’m sure Jack Schmitt was proud. And not to slight Irwin, but Scott’s efforts were singularly exceptional.
This photograph is really cool, in that it’s actually a photograph of an actual relief map, (with EVA traverses superimposed). A pretty good one at that. Then again, it had to be, after the POS the Army crapped out for Apollo 13/14. I’m surprised NASA gave them another/continuing opportunity.
One of the physical relief maps is seen here:
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Credit: RR Auction/icollector.com
It sold for something like a bajillion dollars, +/- a couple of billion.
To me, this landing site was by far the most spectacular visually as well.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
600 frames from 1500 @60fps.
Stacked in Autostakert2, wavelets in RegiStax 6,/Photoshop.
Camera: TIS DMK21.618 Mono
Scope: Celestron C8 with Tele Tele Vue Powermate x 2.5
Mount: AZ EQ6-GT goto.
With a diameter of 418 miles (674 km), there are a number of enhanced features around the mare thanks to the low angle of sunlight. Starting near the top center, just to the left of the 12 o'clock position is Rima Calippus. Continuing clockwise towards 1 o'clock and just outside of the mare some sections of Rimae Daniel are resolved. Between 1 and 2 o'clock, along the edge of the terminator is a wrinkle ridge named Dorsa Smirnov. Between the 4 and 5 o'clock position, and having somewhat of a U-Shape, is Dorsa Lister. It curves back around towards the north and right across Besser Crater. Extending southward from the bottom of Dorsa Lister is Dorsum Nicol, which continues across Rimae Plinius.
The crater on the southern edge of the mare is Menelaus, its ejecta extending out into the mare. Just to the north of the crater is Rimae Menelaus. Following the shore slightly towards the 8 o'clock position is the Montes Haemus range that forms the edge of the Serenitatis basin and is casting its shadow onto the mare. Running parallel to the shore just to the north is Dorsum Buckland. Follow the shore just a little further to the smaller bowl-shaped crater Sulpicius Gallus near the southwestern edge of the Mare Serenitatis. To the northwest is a rille system designated the Rimae Sulpicius Gallus which extends to the northwest for a distance of about 56 miles (90 km) following the edge of the mare. Straight up from Sulpicius Gallus, you can faintly see Dorsum Von Cotta which extends 74 miles (119km) towards a tiny 1.5 mile (2.4 km) diameter crater named Linné. The crater's ejecta has a relatively high albedo making it easy to locate. The estimated age of this crater is only a few tens of millions of years. Towards the 9 o'clock position in Serenitatis os Dorsum Gast, near the gap between Montes Apenninus and Montes Caucasus.
The two craters near the upper left portion of the field of view are Autolycus and Aristilus.
Another reprocess - The beautiful and rugged Apennine Mountains that extend some 400 miles and peaks that rise over 16,000 feet. The impressive and rugged counterscarp extending to the south and southeast. In this field of view also the landing site of Apollo 15 near Rima Hadley and Mt. Hadley. The large lava-filled crater west of the Apennines is Archimedes is just under 52 miles in diameter and 1.3 miles deep. A little north is Autolycus, 24 miles in diameter and ust over 2 miles deep. the last of the 3 prominent craters is Aristillus, 34 miles in diameter and 2.25 miles deep.
Kaguya flyover of Apollo 15 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0GX-nGSXMA
Hermes -
Hermes is the son of Zeus and Maia who was a nymph, one of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, taking refuge in a cave of Mount Kyllini in Arcadia. Hermes was born on Mount Kyllini in Arcadia. On his first day he escaped from the blanket that his mother had wrapped around him and went to Thessaly where he stole some cattle from Apollo's herd and hid in a cave where he created his first lyre from a cow' s intestines and a tortoise shell. Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already returned in his mother's blanket so she refused to believe Apollo's accusations. Zeus took the side of Apollo but when Hermes began to play music on the lyre that he had invented, Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre. Hence, Apollo became a master of the lyre and Hermes invented the syrinx, a pipe-instrument which was also acquired by Apollo later on by exchanging it with a caduceus.
Hermes is Zeus' messenger. He is the fastest of the gods. He wears winged sandals, a winged hat and carries a magic wand. He is the god of thieves and commerce. He is the guide for the dead to go to the underworld. Apart from the lyre he invented, the pipes, the musical scale, astronomy, weights and measures, boxing, gymnastics and the care of olive trees. He is also the Olympian god of boundaries and travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets.
Hermes had many children and one of them was Pan, the satyr-like Greek goat of nature, shepherds and flocks, who was often said to be the son of Hermes through the nymph Dryope. In the Homeric Hymn to Pan, Pan's mother ran away from the newborn god in sight over his goat-like appearance. Hermaphroditus, another son of Hermes, was an immortal son of Hermes through Aphrodite. He was changed into an intersex person when the gods literally granted the nymph Salmacis' wish that they never separate. Eros, the mischievous winged god of love, son of Aphrodite. Tyche, the goddess of luck, Abderus, who was devoured by the Mares of Diomedes and Autolycus, the Prince of Thieves.
Not as proud of this one as yesturdays, but oh well I got it done and it looks kind of decent. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus e Santos Dumont
22-12-2020
mosaico de 2 fotos com 250 frames cada
Toya 114mm EQ-5
ASI 120MC + Celestron Omni Barlow 2x > 3.35x
FireCapture, AutoStarkket, AstroSurface e PhotoShop
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This scene contrasts the dark and relatively smooth basaltic flood plains of a lunar mare with and adjacent and lighter lunar highland region.
The two mountain ranges, Montes Apenninus and Montes Caucasus, form the southeast quadrant of the border between the Mare Imbrium impact basin and the lunar highlands to the south and east of the basin. They are also the most prominent features of Mare Imbrium's border.
Peaks in these ranges can be as high as five kilometres, thus providing commanding views of the Mare Imbrium basin below. Several prominent craters can be seen in this image, to include (moving left to right in the image) Timocharis, Archimedes, Autolycus, and Aristillus. Eratosthenes anchors the south (left) end of Montes Apenninus.
Meade LX850 (12" f/8), ZWO ASI290MM
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Archimedes is the big crater on the upper left side. The shadows of the rim cast into the centre of the crater are quite impressive
Hadley Rill, site of the Apollo 15 landing site. I think I can almost see the descent stage of the Lunar Module... The Apennines rise as much as 15,000 ft. (4,600 m) above the basalt plains flooring the Imbrium Basin. Rima Hadley is a collapsed lava tube and is about 0.75 mi. (1.2 km) in width.
This image shows the three large craters Archimedes, Aristillus and Autolycus. The sinuous path of Hadley Rille is evident in the image and it was near the rille that Apollo 15 landed - approx. position marked by "15" in the image! The crater Hadley "C" can be seen within the rille and the area is overlooked by Mons Hadley to the right. Imaged using my Celestron C8 last year.
A wonderful, erroneous, splashy, pseudo-psychedelic Surveyor program promotional image, ca. 1961/62. This is really striking…you rarely see period color photographs of anything to do with the Surveyor lander. The effort obviously put forth for this makes me think it’s of Hughes Aircraft Company origin, manufacturer of the spacecraft.
Unfortunately, the photograph of the moon is reversed, which is understood from an astrophotography standpoint. But I’d think you’d want it to be ‘naked eye’ representative for something like this. Therefore, upon further consideration, this is probably a NASA-produced image, with the graphics team (or whatever equivalent) responsible, being totally oblivious to the moon’s appearance.
Being an early optimistic design, the model depicted has multiple instruments on it that never materialized. Most obvious in the photo is the conspicuous yellow tubular neutron activator, and next to it, the lengthy vertical structure/framework of the lunar drill. The partially extended scissor-arm mounted “slowly driven geophysical probe” can be seen above the footpad to the right.
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Unique 1960 telescopic photograph of the craters Archimedes and Autolycus near the eastern rim of Mare Imbrium. Hadley Rille and the Apollo 15 landing site are clearly visible, to even include St. George Crater.