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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (7275)	4/2/2001 1:36:41 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Hey, you'd appreciate this, I think. I was looking at the moon last night near the terminus. Very cool. I was "seeing limited" at the power I was using on my 105mm scope. The cool thing is that it was a very calm night. I was able to get very close to the maximum usable power of the scope. Every once in a while I could see rilles in the region where I was looking and a very clear basalt flow. The Vallis Alpes region was particularly good. Half lit. I'd never sat and peered at the moon for so long but because of its position was able to make myself very comfortable. It was almost straight up so I could sit comfortably and watch for over an hour through the eyepiece at eye level while sitting. I actually watched a shadow move from complete coverage of a crater to 50% coverage in a region near the Mountes Apenninis. I'd never actually watched long enough to get to see real motion before, at least not in one sitting. I was telling this to a friend of mine who compared it to looking through a pool -- once in while a clear patch without disturbances would drift by. There is a probability function associated with these clear windows and the longer you watch the more likely you'd see one drift by. I also saw two birds fly through the backlit moon image at a high enough altitude that they were crisply silhouetted. Since I was at about 125 power, the bird must have been quite high to be as small as it was. The other bird was closer (a bit big and blurry).