Vol 50, No 4, April 2013 - BAA Lunar Section

Full Moon over Wellingtonhttps://vimeo.com/58385453From Bob Garfinkle:A non-astronomy friend sent this video to me. Beautiful. Pass it along to your friends. Interestingto see the Moon rise ‘upside down’.Here is something a bit random, but none-the-less astounding. Aphotographer captured what is, to me, one of the mostremarkable things I have ever seen filmed. It is a 3 minutevideo clip of the full moon rising over Wellington, NewZealand. It was shot 2013 January 28, a calm summerevening, as people gathered on the Mt. Victoria Lookoutpoint to watch the moon rise. This stunning video is onesingle real-time shot, with no manipulation whatsoever. Thecamera was placed on a hillside over 2 kilometres from theLookout point, and was shot with the equivalent of a 1300mmlens. The amount of planning, trial and error, and luck that wentinto this are mind blowing. One thing I encourage you to do is watchthis on the biggest screen you have — don’t waste it on an iphone screen. Ihope you all enjoy this as much as I did.Lunar imagesSince March’s LSC, lunar images (or links to images) have been received from Mike Brown (York, UK),Maurice Collins (New Zealand), David Finnigan (UK), Richard Hill (USA), Bill Leatherbarrow (Sheffield,UK), Damian Peach (Selsey, UK), David Scanlan (Romsey, UK). A selection of these images is featuredbelow. My apologies to those contributors whose hard-won work is not featured in this issue; limited spacemeans that only a sample of material (with preference to BAA members) is included.Ptolemaeus andAlphonsus, imaged byBill Leatherbarrow on2013 February 18 at18:37:25 UT, Col. 8.9°.12-inch MCT.BAA Lunar Section Circular Vol. 50 No. 4 April 2013 7