{"id":115699,"date":"2024-10-18T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115699"},"modified":"2024-10-18T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:28:00","slug":"meet-the-only-man-who-knows-what-the-moon-really-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115699","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Only Man Who Knows What The Moon Really Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-0\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><fbs-accordion><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Sunset at Atlas and Hercules Craters from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by Robert Reeves. <\/p>\n<p><\/fbs-accordion><small>Robert Reeves<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The moon is back in fashion, but how well do you know it? It&#8217;s been over 55 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface, but with NASA&#8217;s Artemis 3 moon landing set for 2026 \u2014 or thereabouts \u2014 anticipation is building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterest in the moon is ramping up. It will be in the media and the public eye more often. The average person will be exposed to it more than they have been,\u201d said Robert Reeves, the author of the newly published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireflybooks.com\/BookDetails?Pid=90692\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fireflybooks.com\/BookDetails?Pid=90692\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.fireflybooks.com\/BookDetails?Pid=90692\" aria-label=\"Photographic Atlas of the Moon: A Comprehensive Guide for the Amateur Astronomer\"><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.fireflybooks.com\/BookDetails?Pid=90692\">Photographic Atlas of the Moon: A Comprehensive Guide for the Amateur Astronomer<\/em><\/a>, a day-by-day photographic guide to observing lunar features through a small telescope, in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be more than just an amateur astronomers topic \u2014 it will be a national topic.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-1\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><fbs-accordion><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Janssen Crater from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by Robert Reeves. <\/p>\n<p><\/fbs-accordion><small>Robert Reeves<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align\">Imaging The Moon<\/h2>\n<p>Nobody knows the lunar surface like Robert Reeves, who lives in San Antonio, Texas. He\u2019s been observing and imaging the moon for decades, throughout his life, starting even before Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started taking pictures of the moon in the early 1960s with an ordinary 35-millimeter camera and a four-inch Newtonian reflector and got reasonable results,\u201d said Reeves, who, since the digital era, has produced incredibly sharp images of the lunar surface. He uses a planetary webcam camera to record thousands of frames as a video as his telescope tracks the moon. \u201cSoftware processes that video into a single TIFF image that is then imported into Photoshop for cleaning up and removing artifacts that look like real details,\u201d he explains. \u201cTo do that properly, you need to understand what the moon looks like, identify these areas that are false details, get rid of them, and then enhance the details that are real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 20 years, Reeves has amassed a library of over 2,000 images, which he posts daily as a Postcard from the moon on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robert.reeves.7773\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robert.reeves.7773\/\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/robert.reeves.7773\/\" aria-label=\"his Facebook page\">his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-3\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><fbs-accordion><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Posidonius Crater and the Serpentine Ridge from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Robert Reeves.<\/p>\n<p><\/fbs-accordion><small>Robert Reeves<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align\">Artemis Moon Missions<\/h2>\n<p>Does NASA\u2019s Artemis excite him? \u201cThe exploration of the moon has gone through so many political cycles \u2014 both President Bush\u2019s announced grand plans to go back to the moon \u2014 but it was a diversion from their political troubles,\u201d said Reeves. \u201cIt soon faded from view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His hopes aren&#8217;t high for Artemis, and he wishes it was being followed more closely by the media. \u201cThe fact that it is finally moving at a glacial pace now is encouraging, but I&#8217;m disappointed in the direction it&#8217;s going,\u201d he said. Reeves thinks NASA&#8217;s Artemis will prove far too expensive and mysterious. \u201cThere\u2019s just not much transparency,\u201d he said about the work of SpaceX and Blue Origin on the lunar landers now being designed to take astronauts to the moon\u2019s surface for the first time since 1972. \u201cIt\u2019s not like the old Apollo days, where every turn of the screw was public news \u2014 we&#8217;re in the dark about what\u2019s going on, how billions and billions of dollars are going to be spent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"inread\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-inread\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-4\" role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><fbs-accordion><\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\">Werner and Maginus Craters from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Robert Reeves.<\/p>\n<p><\/fbs-accordion><small>Robert Reeves<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align\">Work Of Art<\/h2>\n<p>If Reeves is disappointed at not being able to follow the progress of the Artemis Project in real-time, it\u2019s probably because he yearns for the incredible photography that lunar surface missions will likely produce.<\/p>\n<p>His <em>Photographic Atlas of the Moon <\/em>is a work of art as well as a labor of love. Despite being 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) from the moon, Reeves uses just an 8-inch Celestron telescope and specialized planetary cameras to capture the exquisite geological detail of shadows thrown across craters, scarps and ridges. As well as being spectacular, the book is also well organized, making it of great practical use for touring the lunar surface, either as an amateur observer using a small telescope or a pair of binoculars, or as an armchair astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>The images of our natural satellite are so sharp and detailed that NASA&#8217;s Artemis 3 astronauts will struggle to match the quality of Reeves\u2019 work \u2014 even as they orbit the moon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jamiecartereurope\/2024\/10\/17\/meet-the-only-man-who-knows-what-the-moon-really-looks-like\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunset at Atlas and Hercules Craters from the Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by Robert Reeves. 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