From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: June 8, 2006 10:40:06 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Phenomenal Lunar Images

Paolo's latest images from his trip to Thailand are extraordinary. This one shows Gassendi at a high sun angle which allows a very impressive and natural visual effect to be created (it is harder with the harsh shadows and highlights at the terminator) yet there is still enough contrast through processing to show a zillion tiny craterlets - fantastic stuff!

Be sure to visit Paolo's optical company site - you can talk with him about his innovative long focus newtonian which he will be making for sale to serious planetary imagers:

http://www.lazzarotti-optics.com/main.html

Alan

On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi Folks;

If you haven't visited LPOD (Lunar Photo Of the Day) lately

http://www.lpod.org/

then you likely missed this phenomenal lunar image

http://www.lazzarotti-optics.com/foto/northern-humorum20060410_1454_lazz-oliv.jpg

by Paolo R. Lazzarotti and T. Olivetti