Apollo 15 Landing Site

[Stub Mandrel]

As a kid I was obsessed with the moon landings. For some reason nothing stuck in my mind like Hadley Rille. was it an ancient watercourse? Its now thought to be a collapsed lava tube.

Last night I started on a long anticipated mission to image all the Apollo landing sites. I haven't processed all the video yet, but this is the first result for the Hadley area. The landing site is just outside the shadow of the moutains crossing the rille - the curving groove visible just right of centre and about 1/4 of the way up. Amazing to be able to do this!

[ghostdance]

Great stuff Stub! Congratulations!

I want to see that groove for myself  - one for the list

Look forward to seeing your Apollo landings series!

[JB80]

Very nice.

I was only reading this article the other day.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/how-to-see-all-six-apollo-moon-landing-sites/?et_mid=745202&rid=246610584

Might give it a go myself.

[Stub Mandrel]

The S&T spurred me to get on with it, although it is something I have had in mind for ages.

[Colinlp]

Very cool, I think this will be a project for me in the future too. I too am completely fascinated with the whole Apollo program,

[Droogie 2001]

I have had a go on the Apollo 15 site,  it's a fascinating area,  https://www.flickr.com/photos/droogie2001/16141024391/

I think that the dramatic Apennine mountain range adds to its appeal.

What also makes imaging the sites so great is that you can then look at the NASA archives and see what the features look like from the Moon's surface.

I don't think I have capture any of the others yet. Definitely something I will follow up.

[Stub Mandrel]

That's crisper than my shot, also it's about a  day later so more of the rille is exposed from shadow.

[Stub Mandrel]

I've figured out how to get the same area out of three successive AVIs - crop oversize, then cropd down a bit more when you combine all three. This is a bit sharper and clearer.

[Droogie 2001]

Thanks. Its tricky as the more magnification you use the more distortion and exposure become an issue.

[John]

Thats a nice image

I was observing the Hadley Rille area just the other night. Conditions were superb and 400x was showing sharp detail with my 12" dob. I managed to see the low hills that NASA dubbed the "North Complex" which is around 3km from the landing point.

It's a fascinating area of the Moon

[Dave In Vermont]

Very nice and interesting to see - all these years later. Please do continue. Maybe you will find the beer-cans they left with the golf-balls.....

Enjoy!

Dave

[todd8137]

Nice image ,I love the moon imaging it ,drawing it ,viewing it ,you got a nice image of it there

Pat

[Blazar]

Nice shot. I did this exact same thing at the end of last year and posted up on here with the image.

for ref I did break out the TAL x3...

here it is.

[Stub Mandrel]

Isn't it amazing that they decided to land a mission tucked into an 'alcove' like that? If you look at then photos teh module was angled over at 5-10 degrees, I wonder how far of level it could have been and still allowed take off? I can imagine them having to jack it up with bits of the LRV - that would have rivalled the Apollo 13 story.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice images. The second one is indeed clearly better

[Astro Imp]

As Michael says above the second image is a great improvement. I look forward to seeing the rest of the series.

Thanks and good luck.