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The Moon

The Moon as a place for humans is being discussed.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no films or videos taken inside the LM while on the Moon, so we don't know how 1/6th of a G works. I mean, it is known that weightlessness slows human activity by a factor of 3 (yes, 0G isn't an obvious state), but we don't know about the Moon in shirtsleeve environment. Should be a lot more helpful for instance to eat, clean up, sleep, move, absence of space sickness, no problem with up and down orientation, etc...

Meanwhile, thanks to my ETX90, a Barlow 2X lens, the ToUcam Pro webcam, the Acer laptop, I've taken pictures of Albategnius, the Apennines, (the Apollo 15 LM is there, somewhere; Plato and Mount Pico with its very long shadow, Sinus Iridum, Bullialdus, Gassendi and Mare Humorum, Copernicus and Eratosthenes, the Straight Wall with Alphonsus and Arzachel on march 29th, and the same area 24 hours later.

Yes, it's not perfect, but that's because I don't have an electronic focuser, the Barlow makes the landscape bigger but also blurs it and I haven't used a software to treat the images (in AVI).
But they were all taken during this week, since monday.

Every creature on Earth, that can see, has seen the Moon, but can only see around on Earth in a very limited surface. The Moon relates to us that way: it mesmerizes, makes us think how insignificant we are, how quickly things change on Earth, while they are kept unchanged and almost forever on the Moon. And how did the Moon form??
It is right there, but we know so little.
There are answers but still lots of uncertainties (knowing its "odd" orbit around the Earth, compared to other moons).
The Moon defies us intellectually, we have to answer back.

Raoul

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