Apollo 15 was here ...

OK, you can't really see the lander base or footprints, but this is the area where Apollo 15 landed.

applied to NASA yet?

Wow, that's one heck of an image given the "consumer" optics you've used...!

Very impressive.

They should label one of those "boehmes" crater for that work.

Bill Boehme wrote in post #7713925
OK, you can't really see the lander base or footprints, but this is the area where Apollo 15 landed.

korrektor wrote in post #7716015
applied to NASA yet?

Outstanding work Bill -- both collecting the images and post-processing!

BTW, I work for NASA in the Constellation Program Lunar Surface Systems Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I can't promise anything, but I'll see what I can do about designating "Crater Boehme" for you!

BTW, I work for NASA in the Constellation Program Lunar Surface Systems Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I can't promise anything, but I'll see what I can do about designating "Crater Boehme" for you!

Little did I know...

korrektor wrote in post #7716015
applied to NASA yet?

Well, I retired a few years ago and currently am having too much fun. When I get bored having fun, then I might check them out.

Pete wrote in post #7716024
Wow, that's one heck of an image given the "consumer" optics you've used...!
Very impressive.

Canon L glass is fantastic stuff. I actually bought the lens a few weeks ago for birding, but have used it as much for "shooting the moon".

bohlenphotography wrote in post #7716925
They should label one of those "boehmes" crater for that work.

I hunted around for a big'un that wasn't taken, but it looks like they got named pretty quickly after Galileo started looking around the solar system with his telescope.

Go4EVA! wrote in post #7718067
Outstanding work Bill -- both collecting the images and post-processing!

BTW, I work for NASA in the Constellation Program Lunar Surface Systems Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I can't promise anything, but I'll see what I can do about designating "Crater Boehme" for you!

Those who know me have always said that I was going to "crater" one of these days. I could become as famous as Stephen Colbert who is campaigning for the ISS Node 3 to be named after after him.

I am a retired "rocket scientist" of sorts. I worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry and the company that I worked for had a few NASA contracts. The only launch vehicle that we built was the Scout, but we also developed and built the RCC components for the shuttle leading edges, shuttle radiator cooling panels, and also some of the ISS solar panels. I was briefly involved in evaluating a training simulator for a proposed Hubble refueling probe deployed from the Space Shuttle.

korrektor wrote in post #7718390
Little did I know...

This place is crawling with rocket scientists.

NOTE: I am sort of in a funk now because I accidenally deleted the file that had the full editing history of the things that I did. I have been trying to reconstruct it without much success. My latest effort met with total disaster ....... see below:

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Bill Boehme wrote in post #7718747
The only launch vehicle that we built was the Scout.

Must have been LTV then, right?

Bill Boehme wrote in post #7718747
I hunted around for a big'un that wasn't taken, but it looks like they got named pretty quickly after Galileo started looking around the solar system with his telescope.

Yeah, sorry about that -- the biggies are pretty much already "taken," and officially registered through the IAU.

Bill Boehme wrote in post #7718747
Those who know me have always said that I was going to "crater" one of these days. I could become as famous as Stephen Colbert who is campaigning for the ISS Node 3 to be named after after him.

Yes, I'm anxiously waiting to hear what our public affairs office has decided about the Node 3 "naming contest." Astronaut Sunita Williams will appear on Colbert's show tomorrow night to make the announcement. (I honestly don't know what she will say, but one rumored "compromise" is that the new toilet, located inside Node 3, will be named after Colbert.)

Bill Boehme wrote in post #7718747
I am a retired "rocket scientist" of sorts. I worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry and the company that I worked for had a few NASA contracts. The only launch vehicle that we built was the Scout, but we also developed and built the RCC components for the shuttle leading edges, shuttle radiator cooling panels, and also some of the ISS solar panels. I was briefly involved in evaluating a training simulator for a proposed Hubble refueling probe deployed from the Space Shuttle.

Were you involved in the Columbia accident investigation?

Bill Boehme wrote in post #7718747
NOTE: I am sort of in a funk now because I accidenally deleted the file that had the full editing history of the things that I did. I have been trying to reconstruct it without much success. My latest effort met with total disaster ....... see below:

Very sorry to hear that -- awesome edit!

This is amazing work Bill!

How much research have you done into knowing which craters are which? I've always wondered if they had names or could ever figure out what crashed up there and when, judging by the diagram you could be the columbus of the moon; charting the whole land one crater at a time.

Nice moon shot and good details on the mountains .

Fantastic Bill, one of the best close ups with a lens I've seen.

Go4EVA! wrote in post #7724521
Yes, I'm anxiously waiting to hear what our public affairs office has decided about the Node 3 "naming contest." Astronaut Sunita Williams will appear on Colbert's show tomorrow night to make the announcement. (I honestly don't know what she will say, but one rumored "compromise" is that the new toilet, located inside Node 3, will be named after Colbert.)

As you've probably heard, they did not name Node 3 after Colbert, but it will contain a treadmill named the "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill"

bjordan wrote in post #7737360
As you've probably heard, they did not name Node 3 after Colbert, but it will contain a treadmill named the "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill"

Yeah, I watched the show last night and thought it was a great compromise! Colbert himself seemed pretty pleased as well. NASA also invited him to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of the treadmill that now bears his name.

Bernoulli wrote in post #7723015
Must have been LTV then, right?

Lucky guess!

Go4EVA! wrote in post #7724521
.... Were you involved in the Columbia accident investigation?

I believe that I had already retired by that time and I never worked on any of the shuttle subcontracts. I remember all too vividly that I was sitting at home at my computer when I heard a low frequency "thump" sound that I thought was something heavy like a tree limb hitting the roof of the house. It actually shook the house. I went outside and was looking around when my wife came driving up and told me what had happened. It was then that I figured out that the sound that I heard was the sonic boom. My wife actually saw the shuttle coming and immediately knew that something was wrong because there was a cluster of several objects that were all leaving contrails. The altitude was much too low since it was supposed to land in Florida.

Karl Johnston wrote in post #7724932
This is amazing work Bill!

How much research have you done into knowing which craters are which? I've always wondered if they had names or could ever figure out what crashed up there and when, judging by the diagram you could be the columbus of the moon; charting the whole land one crater at a time.

Thanks. There was a lot of luck involved since I had to focus manually and my eyesight isn't the greatest.

It was not too hard to identify craters since I have a moon atlas and also there are some great detailed online maps of the moon.

Celestron wrote in post #7735392
Nice moon shot and good details on the mountains .

Nighthound wrote in post #7735537
Fantastic Bill, one of the best close ups with a lens I've seen.

Thanks, guys. I think that I had some really good luck on focusing since reviewing things on the XTi LCD at 10X magnification is not much help in determining sharpness of focus.

bjordan wrote in post #7737360
As you've probably heard, they did not name Node 3 after Colbert, but it will contain a treadmill named the "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill"

Go4EVA! wrote in post #7739049
Yeah, I watched the show last night and thought it was a great compromise! Colbert himself seemed pretty pleased as well. NASA also invited him to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of the treadmill that now bears his name.

I have been out of town for several days so I have missed the really important news, such as the decision on the Node 3 naming contest. Thanks for the update.