"Thomas Dobbins and Charles Genovese have been an inspiration to me for some time. What makes live CCD imaging so important and useful is that we can get 1800 great images per minute without missing any anomalies.

"A video camera chip has picture elements, or pixels, that measure about 10 microns across. Normal high resolution photographs of the Moon require exposures of up to three seconds. This is long enough for atmospheric turbulence to blur the fine details that the tiny film grains are otherwise capable of capturing. In those three seconds we get 90 images.

"Only about 2% of the photons striking a photographic emulsion form the image. With CCD imaging almost half of the photons generate a detectable signal. The result is a 25-fold gain in detector efficiency. We don't need an extremely expensive, nitrogen - cooled CCD camera as used for deep-sky subjects. This saves us money and allows us to have a number of cameras operating at the same time, and with different optical systems and powers! And we can view these videos and frame-grab stills at our leisure and show them to a large audience!

"Persons or groups interested in the Project, especially in doing actual observing and imaging, should contact us and get on our Lunascan Mailing List."