L. P. I. T. (Lunascan Project Imaging Team)





Latest Briefing
Sunday, 6:46 AM, October 9, 2011
    
Fran Ridge:
                        
In regard to the Blair Cuspids, I have attempted to contact the people at Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission to get them to image them, but I never received any reply. TransOrbital's Trailblazer people were enthusiastic but due to economic conditions the mission was scrubbed. Several people on our team have located some information from the LRO data, however, and we are checking this out.
http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/blair.htm

Ned Haskin went looking for them at 5.1 N lat, 15.5 E long. Using their zoomable moon page
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc#damoon 
I have notified Lan Fleming of VGL and hope he is able to get his team on this too.

Routine lunar scanning resumed last March, but we've had a lot of bad weather and terrible seeing conditions.  The sky "opened up" last week and we had seven nights of great weather and a lot of "footage".  Reports to be posted in a few days. We had a potential "fastwalker" on Oct. 2, at 19 hrs 56 mins and 48 secs. This turned out to be an insect out of focus and close to the camera/scope system.

We've been using the C-8 with standard controls, but we're preparing to go to the DOB Driver II computer system used on our 16" and  10" scopes previously. Parts to convert the C-8 into a Newtonian with DOB bearings are on the way.