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By Gil Carlson
ISBN: 13: 978-1-63535-870-4
(C) Copyright 2017 Gil Carlson
Blue Planet Press
Contact us at: [email protected]
To discover the rest of the books in this Blue Planet Project Series:
The material in this book has not been submitted to or approved
by any U.S. intelligence agency. If anything is discovered that is
considered by your agency to be classified, notify the publisher.
ASTRONAUTS NElL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN speaking from the Moon:
ASTRONAUTS: “Those are giant things. No, no, no .... this is not an optical illusion. No one is
going to believe this!”
MISSION CONTROL (HOUSTON CENTER): “What...what...what? What the hell is happening?
What’s wrong with you?”
ASTRONAUTS: “They’re here under the surface.”
MISSION CONTROL: “What’s there? Emission interrupted... interference control calling
ASTRONAUTS: “We saw some visitors. They were there for awhile, observing the
MISSION CONTROL: ”Repeat your last information.”
ASTRONAUTS: “I say that there were other spaceships. They’re lined up on the other side of
MISSION CONTROL: “Repeat...repeat!”
ASTRONAUTS: “Let us sound this orbita..... In 625 to 5...automatic relay connected... My hands
are shaking so badly I can’t do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have picked up
anything... what then?”
MISSION CONTROL: “Have you picked up anything?”
ASTRONAUTS: “I didn’t have any film at hand. Three shots of the saucers or whatever they
were that were ruining the film.”
MISSION CONTROL: “Control, control here. Are you on your way? Is the uproar with the
ASTRONAUTS: “They’ve landed there. There they are and they are watching us.”
MISSION CONTROL: “The mirrors, the mirrors...have you set them up?”
ASTRONAUTS: “Yes, they’re in the right place. But whoever made those space ships surely
can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out.”
(Provided by Christopher Kraft, director of the NASA Mission Control in Houston during
the Apollo Moon missions. He revealed the above conversation after he left work at NASA)
"At no time, when the astronauts were in space were
they alone: there was a constant surveillance by UFOs."
- Scott Carpenter
Here’s What’s Inside:
The Book That Almost Wasn’t Written…4
Are We Getting the Full Truth About the Aliens?...6
Are You Ready to Find Out the Truth About the Moon?...7
We Must Learn More About the Alien/Moon Connection…8
History of the Moon…9
Where did the Moon Come From?...10
It’s Not Made of Blue Cheese!...11
Strange Occurrences on the Moon…14
What NASA is Hiding from You?...19
Spaceship on the Moon…26
Alien Base on the Moon…28
Cities Found on the Moon?...29
The Moon is a Spaceship!...34
Communications from Astronauts on the Moon…40
Communications from Aliens on the Moon…41
The Current Occupants of the Moon…42
Spaceships and UFOs on the Moon…49
More Alien Bases on the Moon…51
The Hubble Space Telescope…54
Enough is Enough…55
Lunar Probe Attempts…55
Those That Have Talked and Those That are still Hiding the Truth from Us…58
The Day We Nuked the Moon!...65
Alternative 3 – Fact or Fiction?...69
Is There a Secret Space Program?...71
Evidence for Parallel Space Programs…73
Was Project Horizon Completed and is it being Operated by the Air Force?...75
The Lunex Project – Was it Cancelled?...76
The Moon – Key to the Aliens on Earth!...77
The Mystical Moon…82
Grab This Free NASA Software…88
Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events…94
“The Moon is the key to the secrets of us aliens on Earth and once you figure out the
Moon, you will have the whole picture!”
- The Aliens
The Book That Almost Wasn’t Written…
You may be wondering where all the information in these
books I write comes from… Well, while I can’t reveal all my
contacts, I can tell you that a number of people share
information with me, information they may not have revealed
to anyone else, but are anxious to finally be able to have it
shared with the public.
It could have been information discovered in their employment,
service or data shared with them by relatives or friends who
once worked in a sensitive area. Often, I get clues that lead me
to info that is buried so deep, it normally wouldn’t be found.
And then I get help from my “friends.” These are the entities that
have guided and helped me throughout my life. It doesn’t seem to be my subconscious
or anything like that. The only way I can describe it is that they are alien entities of some
type. I know this may seem strange, but that’s just the way it is!
After I finished writing “Alien Secrets” (book #15 in the Blue Planet Project Series), I
decided to take a break from writing these books and catch up on some other work
that was piling up, but it turned out that it wasn’t to be.
Within a couple of days, the title of this book and an image of the book flashed into my
Let me explain. Ever since I was young, I had been receiving messages and guidance from
what I would describe as alien. It started when I was young and they would explain to
me about a life in business that awaited me when I grew up and that I should start
preparing for it. Along with the messages I would be shown a sort of video clip of myself
in the future with someone explaining it to me.
This happened at various stages of my life. And at various crossroads in my journey on
Earth I was even shown previews of what would result if I made one decision or
another. Nothing judgmental, or saying one decision was good and the other bad. It just
let me know what to expect so I could make the right decision.
Several times these entities spoke to me with urgent instructions, which I followed, and
I know they had saved my life. One involved their very vocally making me change lanes
as I pulled up to a stoplight. Listening to them led me to avoid an unseen speeding car
that within seconds would have crashed into me with dire results.
Plus, there were many other instances that could have resulted in very bad outcomes;
but when things worked out well, I just considered it to be luck. But looking back now,
I’m sure it was intervention on their part.
So, now when they communicate something to me, I try not to dismiss it as just my
imagination or too much coffee, as I might have done at an earlier stage in my life.
So here I was being shown this idea for a book of Aliens on the Moon, and to be honest
with you, I had no intention of writing this book. This was the last thing I wanted to
write about. There were so many things happening a lot closer to home with the aliens
here on Earth. For example I have written in previous books such as Underground Alien
Bases, UFO Crashes and Dulce Base.
Besides, there have been so many crazy hard-to-explain happenings involving the Moon
over the years as well as a number of books already written about aliens on the Moon, I
wondered, how could I do it justice?
So here I was being very uninterested in their ideas for my next book. (I can be very
stubborn at times.) But they weren’t pushy, they know how to slowly get to you.
After being negative to their suggestions that I write this book, I was immediately
presented with some very interesting facts about the Moon and their involvement with
it that I had not been aware of. My curiosity was piqued and now I became intrigued.
Now that I was interested, and I seriously entertained the idea of someday writing this
book. But not at that time; because there were still things about this subject that were
fuzzy to me. I didn’t have a clear idea of where to start and how to structure the book,
it was too confusing to me and I couldn’t get a handle on it.
I had also been busy writing book #16, “Shadow Government, Trump, and Your
Future.” With the elections and so much being revealed about the secret dealings of the
Shadow Government that had been boiling up, there was no time to waste. I felt the
information in that book had to be revealed without delay. That book had to go out
asap and the Aliens on the Moon book would then just have to wait.
Once that book was finished and I had spent some time kicking around ideas for the
next book, trying to figure out which subject was most important, and just could not
wait any longer to be revealed. They then popped up again with this idea for this “Aliens
on the Moon” book. (Pesky little Critters!)
There are some psychic people, like my good friend Larry, who are able to channel a
whole book from aliens, but I’m not that fortunate. However, I do get a lot of guidance
as I’m writing, as they just seem to give me clues and let me do the rest of the work on
These alien entities just give me phrases, rather than all the information. But these
phrases are very powerful. Once I concentrate on them, they seem to open up, to
expand into a whole world of meaning and enlightenment.
As an example, when these entities showed up in my head again, they provided me with
the structure for the book, which seemed very simple, yet was exactly what I needed to
make it easy to get started writing this book. They then provided me with important
information which led me to what was needed for this book. With this new information,
I became anxious and excited about beginning the book.
Then, probably sensing that I considered the Moon to be some distant, mostly lifeless
rock, they explained that the Moon was a lot closer than I ever realized. I was then
encouraged to write about how the Moon was the key to the riddle of the aliens on Earth
and revealing this was very important to them or us or both of us, I’m sure that’s
exactly what they intended to convey.
They gave me these phrases and I hope to be able to do them justice. As these phrases
go beyond the mere word that comprise them. They contain an energy that can open up
to deeper meanings in a way that I cannot readily put into words. But I will try. This
subject must be very important to them, as they seem to be eager to have it revealed.
So here goes…
Are We Getting the Truth About the Aliens?
The more we look into the overall story about the aliens, the more it appears that our
government and the military are determined to put the aliens in a bad light. It is now
starting to come out that many of the negative things that have been blamed on the
aliens, has likely been committed by earthly governments, especially our own. Such as
some of the violent abductions, kidnappings and memory erasing-memory implants.
Also, animal mutilations might actually be experiments by the government or the
government and some alien groups working together. Even RFID chips planted in
abduction victims, which has been a trademark of the aliens for years, is starting to
sound more like a CIA plot! It is important to note here that there are several groups of
aliens interacting with humanity at various levels; and with varying agendas.
Many of us first heard about the black helicopters showing up right after an alien contact
from reading Whitley Strieber’s book “Communion.” At that time, I was trying make
some sense of this, were they following the aliens, chasing them away, or working with
them? It has also been suggested that aliens can easily disguise their craft as military
And now there now there are stories about government agents showing up after alien
abductions and wanting to know more from the abduction victims about what they
learned if anything from the aliens.
More needs to be found out about the aliens and their connection to our government
and if they are working together or against each other, or both.
Could it be that it is the aliens who are eager to reveal who they are and what they are
doing here, but our government is trying to keep it quiet? Could the aliens be ready to
make official open contact and renew their original connections to us?
Are You Ready to Find Out the
Truth About the Moon?
How much longer are we going to listen to NASA imply that our Moon is just a cold,
lifeless rock that’s not worth exploring anymore?
And then they nuke the Moon and give us a silly explanation about it was just to look
for water! They try to fool us and block radio communications from the astronauts just
as they are explaining that they are surrounded by aliens and that they were even
greeted by one as they stepped out onto the Moon!
They then have a whole building at NASA devoted to doctoring and airbrushing UFOs
and alien bases out of their photos of the Moon before they release them to the public!
OK, I realize that it is so serious and frightening that they don’t dare reveal what’s really
happening on the Moon and even right here on Earth and I can understand that they
don’t won’t to frighten people, cause a panic and give away military secrets.
But I’m going to reveal it all! So, if you frighten easily, stop right there, But, if you are
ready to find out what is really going on, keep reading!
Maybe I’m being a little rough on NASA, they have their job to do and they are under
strict government controls, But I have my job to do, and that is to reveal everything I
can find so that we all know what is really going on, no matter who gets upset about it!
I’ve been able to put together a complete picture of the Moon’s alien presence, based
on a long history of Moon observations, scientific facts, official contacts I have that want
to see the truth revealed, and most importantly, from NASA, through leaks from their
staff, communications, photos and scientific information they have failed to alter, or hide
It must be driving NASA crazy, as they try to pretend nothing is going, while they are
stumbling upon alien bases, cities, and even huge industrial/mining complexes and aliens
are popping up everywhere around them as they are trying to block the camera lenses,
turn off radio communications and switch to secure frequencies that we can’t hear.
We Must Learn More About the Alien/Moon Connection
There is a general tendency to not consider the Moon
singularly significant. That barren, lifeless chunk of rock
is so useless that NASA doesn’t even want to return
First of all, we should wonder why NASA seems
determined to have the Moon appear so unimportant to
us and why they doctor the photographs and other
evidence of life, habitation and mining/industrial works
going on there.
Did you realize that if it wasn’t for the Moon being exactly where it is, life as we know it
couldn’t exist on this planet So, we must ask ourselves how it got there. Was it just an
amazing accidental coincidence? Or did someone put it there?
Historically, if we look deep enough below the surface, we can see that entities of some
type went to a lot of trouble to make the Earth habitable, create and then protect life
on it, and even to bring civilization and advanced knowledge to us. Plus, there have been
many constructions and elaborate projects put into place to protect and enhance this
marvelous creation we call Earth and that the aliens refer to as a “Protected Developing
Yes, we had mentioned the Moon which offers protection to the Earth, but did you
realize that there are other things that we don’t give much thought to which also may
have been put in place for a good reason. Such as… Did you realize that the asteroid
belt, created by the collision of planets, also forms a natural barrier that protects us
from marauding lifeforms from other universes? As well as the Van Allen radiation belt
which surrounds Earth? (Or, on the other side of the coin, it could be they were
created to keep us from leaving Prison Planet Earth!)
History of the Moon
How Was the Moon Created?
Basically, our scientists are unsure of how the Moon was created; however, there are
two main schools of thought:
One is the “Big Whack” theory. It says that something, maybe an asteroid, hit the earth
millions of years ago, leaving a cloud of debris. The particles were eventually drawn
together and formed into the Moon.
The other theory is that the Moon broke off from the earth while it was a molten mass
spinning rapidly, so rapidly that it formed into a dumbbell shape and one end broke off.
This theory was originally proposed in 1880 by Sir George Darwin, the son of famed
evolutionist Charles Darwin.
All modern theories of how the Moon was formed are based on the premise that at one
time the earth and the Moon were one. But, once again, we may have been fed a lot of
misinformation. Here’s why:
In 1969, after the astronauts landed on the Moon and brought back Moon rocks,
scientists scrutinized them carefully and were shocked by what they discovered.
Here's what they should have told you but didn't:
• The Moon rocks are over a billion years older than our earth!
• The Moon dust is a billion years older than the rocks!
• Both the rocks and Moon dust the astronauts brought back are older than our
sun and our entire solar system!
• Chemical analysis showed that the composition of the Moon rocks and moon
dust was completely different, not even closely related to one another as we
would have expected.
• What this means is that it appears as if the moon was created somewhere else!
Also, it means that the Moon rocks somehow got placed on the surface from
somewhere else a billion years after the dust had formed.
(To be more precise: Scientists have dated some Moon rocks as billions of years old.
Some have been dated back as far as 4.5 billion years. Scientists nowadays accept the
moon to be 4.6 billion years old. Harvard's respected astronomy journal, Sky and
Telescope, reported that at a lunar conference in 1973, a lunar rock was dated as 5.3
billion years old which would make it almost a billion years older than our planet.)
And that's just the start. The Moon's orbit is nearly a perfect circle. Not only that, but
the moon does not spin. One side, the same side, is always facing the earth.
Scientists have not found any other naturally occurring body in the entire universe that
exhibits these two characteristics. The only objects that do this are the satellites we
launch. The Moon behaves exactly like a satellite! The odds against the Moon falling
naturally into this kind of circular, non-spinning orbit are astronomical!
Years ago, I pondered over this strange behavior of the Moon and that it was able to
keep one side completely hidden from us Earthlings. Didn’t you ever wonder about this
Where did the Moon Come From?
As there is very little similarity between the Moon and Earth, the old theory that the
Moon broke off from our planet and ended up in its orbit can be discounted.
It is well accepted that the Moon originated in other parts of the universe before
moving into the earth’s orbit. Author and science expert, Isaac Asimov believed that the
Moon was too large to have been captured by our orbit. The orbit of the Moon itself is
Zecharia Sitchin wrote in his 1990 book “Genesis Revisited” that some answers are
provided if we go back to the Sumerian cosmology. The Sumerian cosmology describes
an unstable solar system caused by emerging gravitational forces disturbing planetary
balance and causing Moons to grow disproportionately. According to the Sumerians,
one of the eleven Moons of Tiamat grew to an unusual size. and proved to be
increasingly disruptive to the other planets. It was named 'Kingu'.
In an ensuing celestial battle, Tiamat was split in two; one half was shattered; the other
half, accompanied by Kingu, was thrust into a new orbit to become the Earth and its
It’s Not Made of Blue Cheese!
And you thought that the Moon was a boring place! The more we study it, the more
we realize that it is the most unusual, fascinating object in our skies!
We have been unable to determine how it came into existence and the more we
discover about it, the more theories we have to throw out.
The Moon’s crust is much harder than originally presumed. When NASA was recorded
drilling down a few inches into the Moon’s surface, it appeared that metal shavings were
Hundreds of Moon quakes are recorded each year that cannot be attributed to meteor
strikes. Some of the quakes seem to follow a specific schedule.
Ultrasensitive seismic equipment has been placed on the Moon by the Apollo
astronauts. When Apollo 12 and Apollo 13 left the Moon, they jettisoned the ascent
stages of their spacecraft. The pieces of the craft fell back and hit the Moon. Despite the
relatively small size of these objects, when they struck, the entire moon reverberated
for over eight minutes! The Moon registered as being more hollow than solid! Scientists
at NASA said, "It reacted like a gong!" They were at a loss to explain this, and so they
just avoid discussing it with the public. (After all, we are just the ones that pay their
Titanium and Rust Proof Rocks on the Moon!
Scientists found that the crushed-up rocks on the Moon are from another world!
Analysis has shown that the Moon rocks are of a completely different composition to
the soil around them. Some of the rocks gathered by a Soviet mission in 1970 were
resistant to rusting. This is not a feature of any metal known to man and years ahead of
The Moon has three distinct layers of rocks. Contrary to the idea that heavier rocks
sink, the heavier rocks are found on the surface.
As stated by “Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon” author, Don Wilson: "The abundance
of titanium and other refractory elements in the surface areas is so pronounced that
several geo-chemists proposed that refractory compounds were bought to the Moon's
surface in great quantity in some unknown way. That this was done cannot be
questioned. These materials which are usually concentrated towards the interior of a
world are now on the outside."
Earl Ubel, a former science director for CBS Television added to the mystery by stating
"The first layer (20 miles deep), consists of lava-like material similar to lava flows on
Earth. The second, extending down to 50 miles, is made up of somewhat denser rock.
The third, continuing to a depth of at least 80 miles and probably below, appears to be
of a heavier metal, similar to the Earth's mantle."
Many of the rock samples discovered on the Moon have also been found to be
magnetized. It has been suggested that this is due to their exposure to the magnetism
present on earth.
But others have rebutted this claim by arguing that if such an influence was placed on
the Moon, the earths magnetism would have caused the destruction of the Moon and its
orbit many millions of years ago.
Huge disk shaped objects are located beneath the Moons lava seas!
The Moon has large seas of smooth molten rock. Known as 'maria', four fifths of these
are on the Earth-side hemisphere. In the center of these maria, huge disk-shaped objects
have been detected lying 20 to 40 miles below the surface.
The objects are referred to as 'mascons' and they are said to be located like a bulls-eye
at the center of the marias. The mascons were first discovered because their density
distorted the orbits of objects flying over or near them.
Some scientists have theorized that the mascons are heavy iron ore meteorites that
plunged into the Moon when it was in a soft and formable state.
But could they have been placed there by the Moons caretakers? Could they be for
guidance systems, communications, gravity control, or weapons systems?
Volcanic activity on the Moon?
In 1963 astronomers at the Lowell Observatory saw a reddish glow on the crests of the
ridges in the Aristarchus region.
This was after a similar glow and gaseous explosions were photographed by Russian
astronomer Nikolay A. Kozyrev in 1958. Other observatories also reported a red glow.
Although the Moon is deemed to be volcanically dead it, seems that there is certainly
something going on in its interior. Seismographic equipment left at six separate sites on
the Moon by the Apollo missions picked up a great deal of activity until they ceased
operating in 1977.
Is the Moon hollow?
To the horror of some scientists, there are many indications that the Moon is hollow.
The moon's mean density… about 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter is significantly less
than the 5.5 gram density of the earth's mantle. This density indicates that the Moon
may not have a core.
The most starling evidence came on November 20 1969, when the Apollo 12 crew,
after returning to their command ship, sent the lunar module ascent stage crashing
down back on to the Moon, creating an artificial earthquake. The crash site was 40 miles
from where the astronauts had left their seismic devices. The ultra-sensitive equipment
recorded the Moon ringing like a bell for more almost forty minutes. The vibration took
almost eight minutes to reach a peak and then diminished in intensity.
This ringing was repeated when the Apollo 13's upper stage fell to the lunar surface,
striking with the equivalent of eleven tons of TNT. According to NASA, this time the
Moon reacted like a gong.
Although seismic equipment was 108 miles from the crash site, recordings showed
reverberations lasted for three hours and twenty minutes and traveled to a depth of
twenty-two to twenty-five miles. Subsequent studies of man-made crashes yielded
similar results. After one impact the Moon reverberated for four hours.
On March 13, 1972, a large meteorite struck the Moon with the equivalent of 200 tons
of TNT. After sending shockwaves deep into the interior of the Moon, scientists were
baffled to find that none returned, realizing that there is something unusual about the
Moon's core. It seems the Moon has a tough outer shell but a light, or non-existent
interior. it would seem like the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous sphere.
When NASA first put seismometers on the Moon and struck it, they said it rang like a
bell. When they struck it again with a bigger blow, they said it not only rang like a bell,
but the whole Moon wobbled in such a precise way that:
"it was almost like the Moon had gigantic, hydraulic damper struts inside it. The evidence we've
gathered indicates the frightening possibility that the Moon may be hollow."
– Shaun Solomon MIT
Strange Occurrences on the Moon
During the 1950s numerous UFOs seen over Earth were tracked back to the Moon by
government tracking stations.
In the 1950s to 1960s more moving, flashing, and stationary lights were seen on the
lunar surface by civilian astronomers, usually inside craters, along with a mysterious
Soviet and American spacecraft in orbit over the Moon began to photograph mysterious
structures on the Moon. Although they were censored by NASA, some photos were
obtained by such Scientific researchers as Fred Steckling.
The U.S. spacecraft RANGER II took over 200 photographs of Moon craters with
domes inside. These domes are nothing new. They were reported in the news media by
French astronomers about 48 years earlier. 33 Moon dome photos from Lunar Orbiter
2 were released in Washington D.C., in 1967
On June 1, 1966, NASA admitted to the news media that astronauts had seen UFOs
then later contradicted themselves by denying it. Photos of the “Blair cuspids”, taken by
satellites show strange spires on the Moon that form perfect geometric patterns.
Tall white spires resembling the Washington monument were photographed on the
lunar surface, along with mysterious straight roads or tracks that cut through craters,
hills, valleys, and rock piles without a twist. Some of the domes had flashing lights.
And several NASA photos even showed long cigar-shaped objects parked on the Moon.
One photo showed a pyramid-like object on the dark side of the Moon.
Lunar Life Transient Phenomena?
We now must accept that the Moon is far from being an inert and lifeless world. Sorry
NASA, you can’t fool us any longer!
Many centuries of observation have noted occurrences on the lunar surface which take
the form of glows, mists, flashes and similar illuminations. They have become more
popularly described as Lunar Transient Phenomena (LTP), thanks to noted astronomer
Patrick Moore who coined the phrase. It largely encompasses all such recorded signs of
activity now generally thought to be volcanic in nature.
Ancient peoples throughout the world held the Moon and its periodic eclipses in awe
and for many it was a source of worship. From this sprang numerous intriguing myths
and legends, including the notion firmly held by many Greeks that this small neighbor of
Earth's was inhabited also.
Lucian of Samosata; although Syrian, was a widely regarded Greek satirist and lyricist.
He first wrote of his travels to that "great country in the air" in a published work
entitled: 'True History'. Although more fiction that fact, it told the tale of a voyage in a
sailing ship carried aloft by a whirlwind to the Moon and a subsequent meeting with its
inhabitants; claimed to be much like those of Earth.
In 1516 Lodovico Ariosto wrote an epic poem in which the theme was a lunar trip by
way of "firie chariet". The astronomer Johannes Kepler, who published his famous 'Laws
of Planetary Motion' between 1609 and 1618, also wrote 'Dream'; a book full of
fantasies and visions based on the science of the day that included the idea of Moon-
dwellers. It was in the same year, 1634, that Lucian of Samosata's original work was first
published in England.
Now the idea of life on other worlds was beginning to form in earnest and Bishop
Francis Godwin pursued this theme four years later when he wrote: “The Man in the
Moon.” It recorded the adventures of a fictitious Spaniard, Domingo Gonzales, who
trained large birds for an eventful trip that was to take him eleven days. So popular was
this and other stories that Moon voyages appeared in over 200 published accounts
during the 17th century.
Moon-men were an emerging breed and their strange world was to become the object
of increasing interest and speculation. It led to respected astronomers such as Sir
William Herschel devoting much of their time to observing the lunar surface.
He himself recorded on two consecutive nights in April; 1787 three bright white spots
on the earth-lit side of the Moon which he concluded could only have been volcanoes.
In 1822 German astronomer Franz von Paula Gruithuisen announced that he had
discovered a "lunar city" possessing "dark gigantic ramparts." These were to be
identified later as consisting of nothing more than haphazard surface ridges.
It was a shrewd American news reporter Richard Lock who became the first person to
recognize an opportunity for personal fame and fortune, when in 1835 he successfully
duped the New York Sun and its readership. In August that year the newspaper was to
publish the first of his amazing accounts alleging that Sir John Herschel, son of William,
was using a revolutionary new lunar telescope at a site in Southern Africa and through it
had observed goat-like creatures ambling about on the Moon's surface.
The tale gradually unfolded during the next week as successive editions of the Sun
carried ever-more colorful descriptions of flora and fauna, also islands, rivers, birds and
beasts. Meanwhile, poor Herschel remained oblivious to these events.
Lock possessed a nifty turn-of-phrase and capitalized on the limitations imposed on
communications in the early 19th century. He milked it for all he was worth, while the
hoax continued, first ensnaring rival newspapers and then even eminent scientists on
both sides of the Atlantic.
Readers avidly absorbed every word and were captivated by flowery descriptions of
great works supposedly wrought on the lunar surface, such as this:
"A lofty chain of obelisk-shaped or very slender pyramids standing in irregular groups,
each composed of about thirty or forty spires, every one of which was perfectly
Lock crowned his literary achievement one week later by introducing into the narrative
a colorful report of the lunar inhabitants.
These hairy winged creatures were said to be four feet in height and "covered, except
on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, lying snugly on their backs. The
face, which was of a yellowish flesh-color, was a slight improvement upon that of an
A rival newspaper subsequently exposed the whole things as being a hoax, although it
took until mid-September before the Sun newspaper, who became willing partners in
the deception, grudgingly owned up to it. Herschel for his part was to learn of this
duplicity sometime later and continued his observations at the Cape apparently
somewhat amused at the claims and following furor in both America and Europe.
Lunar observers such as W.H. Pickering spent many years at the turn of this century
mapping what he himself often described as "canals" present on the Moon's seemingly
ever-changing landscape. These mazes of lines were observed to intersect mysterious
dark spots, much in the manner of those more famous Martian canals which had been
recorded by Shiaparelli and announced to the world in 1877.
Pickering went on to claim that he had identified vegetation, along with "river-beds" and
active volcanoes, or geysers. From his vantage point in the hills of Jamaica during 1919-
24 the astronomer believed he was witness to the migratory passage of small insects or
animals, in their leisurely traversing of the area around the Moon's Eratosthenes crater.
Throughout the last 200 years many lunar observers have reported witnessing the brief
appearance of inexplicable mists, cloud-like shapes, glows and flashes on a seemingly
lifeless gray world. Walter H. Haas, who wrote in 1942 that Sir William Herschel's
white spots on the Moon might have been the impact flare of a large meteorite, himself
observed a "milky luminosity" present on the wall of the crater Tycho.
Astronomer F.H. Thornton reported seeing "a puff of whitish vapor obscuring details
for some miles," one February night in 1949.
That same year, Spanish engineer Sixto Campo seriously promoted the theory that a
technologically advanced civilization had once waged nuclear war against itself on the
lunar surface. Annihilation followed swiftly for all he claimed and the resulting craters
remain as testament to the holocaust on a now dead world. However, red glows
continue to be observed in the region of the Moon's north pole and blue misty glows
have been periodically noted near craters at the south pole.
Russian astronomer N.A. Kozyrev has recorded, via spectrograms, numerous incidents
of red transient lunar phenomena, particularly in the 80-mile wide crater known
as Alphonsus. It was at this location, in 1965 that the final Ranger 9 probe crash-landed.
Aristarchus is not only one of the brightest formations on the Moon, it is responsible
for more than half the number of reported TLP and has been a proven source for
Strange Lunar Shadows
These two mysterious incidents began on the night of 3 July 1882. For 45 minutes the
residents of Lebanon, Connecticut, were treated to a bizarre lunar display:
“Two pyramidal luminous protuberances appeared on the Moon’s upper limb. They
were not large, but gave the Moon a look strikingly like that of a horned owl. These
points were a little darker than the rest of the Moon’s face. They slowly faded away a
few moments after their appearance, the one on the right...disappearing first.
About three minutes after their disappearance two black triangular notches were seen
on the lower half of the Moon. These points gradually moved toward each other along
the Moon’s edge, and seemed to be obliterating nearly a quarter of its surface, until they
finally met, when the Moon’s face assumed its normal appearance.”
The second occurrence took place on 27 January 1912, and was witnessed by Dr. F.B.
“At 10:30 Eastern time I was surprised to see the left cusp showing the presence of an
intensely black body about 250 miles long and 50 wide, allowing 2000 miles from cusp to
cusp, in shape like a crow poised.
Of course, dark places are here and there on the lunar surface, but not like this. I will
say every effort was made to eliminate any error of vision or other mistake... The Moon
is very tricky... I cannot but think that a very interesting and curious phenomenon has
But what was it? Well... apparently there exists a high-quality photo from the 1950s or
1960s, of a vast starship flying over the Moon, snapped by an astronomer. It is said to be
an intergalactic craft, several miles long, and capable of carrying thousands at a time!
Did NASA try to distort the truth by replying to reports of flashing lights seen on the
Moon by claiming that volcanic action could cause these flashes, while in later
statements said that there was no volcanic activity observed in those areas?
Strange lights and moving shadows have been seen on the Moon by astronomers so
often that NASA has even published a catalog of them. From the year 1540 to 1967,
NASA lists over 570 strange Moon events in a report called "Chronological Catalogue
of Reported Lunar Events." The report is also known as NASA Technical Report # R-
This full report appears at the end of this book.
Lights on the Moon were being seen so regularly that NASA started a study, called
Operation Moonblink (Draft completed in 1965-1966), to investigate them. NASA
commissioned observatories from around the world to just watch and photograph the
Moon. Within months there were more than twenty-eight documented lunar events.
Several of these events were confirmed by astronomers outside the program.
Photographs of these events have never been released to the public. Which is
interesting, but in keeping with NASA procedures.
It turns out that the 570 "lunar lights" events cataloged by NASA are just a few of
literally thousands of such observations that are regularly being made around the world
by amateur astronomers. In fact, NASA took these 570 events from over 2,600 such
events they had observed. In countries, such as Japan and Great Britain, where
astronomy is a national passion, these lunar activities have been well documented on
film as well as still photographs.
Huge objects, four to five miles in diameter have been seen moving across vast lunar
craters at speeds up to 6,000 miles per hour! In addition, beams and long-distance rays
of light have also been seen, as well as clouds, fog, and mists. All these anomalies on the
Moon have been cataloged for decades by credible scientists.
The mystery of the lunar eclipse?
Why is it that the Moon is just the right distance from the earth to completely cover
the sun during an eclipse?
While the diameter of the Moon is a mere 2,160 miles against the sun's gigantic 864,000
miles, it is never the less in just the proper position to block out the suns corona when
it moves between the sun and earth. Isaac Asimov explains, "there is no reason why the
Moon and the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the
Earth is among all the planets blessed in this fashion.”
Is there a sinister reason for this? Do the aliens need to take advantage of the eclipses
to make major maneuvers or changes that would otherwise be observed by the humans
on Earth? Or was it just for religious, superstitious purposes to control and influence
What NASA is Hiding from You?
Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program, published in 1982, detailed a NASA film
taken by astronauts on the Moon. It shows Apollo 11 astronauts planting the American
Flag on the Moon. Immediately after, a gust of wind blows the flag and it billows out.
The astronauts run towards the camera and cover the lens with their hands. From then
on, all flags sent up with the astronauts had wires in them to hold them out.
Below you will find some of the lunar anomalies. These were collected from NASA’s
Clementine lunar orbiter spacecraft. Some of these photos were taken from the Apollo
missions from space, others taken from Satellite.
These images are authentic. NASA at first feared releasing them because most people
would be shocked to find that life did exist on the Moon. Also, consider that most of
the anomalies are made of glass or a similar substance these entities have developed,
since they give off reflections.
Most of the anomalies are huge. The bridge is said to be 12 miles long, the shard tower
is said to be 1.5 miles high and there is said to be cities the size of Los Angeles near
mountain ranges. These are not camera tricks we are viewing here. There is said to be
over 400 unexplained anomalies found on the Moon that's enough to show that
something is now or has once existed on the Moon.
This image is an overexposed 44x enlargement of Lunar Orbiter frame LO-III-84-M.
Taken with the medium resolution camera at a distance of at least 250 miles, it shows
an object dubbed the "Shard". The star-like object above the Shard is a camera
Poor resolution images like this one of the Shard have led some to conclude it is an
ephemeral "outgassing" event. However, the Enterprise Mission enhancements reveal no
"spray" or splatter which would be consistent with such a conclusion. The object
appears to be solid, though badly battered by meteors.


Space Science and Remote Sensing
Space Science & Remote Sensing is a broad, challenging and exciting field of scientific inquiry that involves asking large questions about our world and then developing the scientific instruments to start looking for answers. Those instruments usually ride in satellites and operate by either looking down at the earth, looking out into space, or monitoring the space environment in the vicinity of the satellite.
Space Situational Awareness
COM DEV led the development of the optical surveillance payload for Sapphire — a space surveillance satellite owned by Canada’s Department of National Defence. The optical payload is a reliable radiation-tolerant imaging system that provides space situational awareness from 6,000 to 40,000 km altitude.
The AIM (Advanced Integrated Microsatellite) spacecraft bus is a low-cost, adaptable multi-mission platform for microspace solutions. It has been selected as the platform for M3MSat (Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite), a joint mission of the Canadian Space Agency and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).
COM DEV's role on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2018, will study the birth and evolution of galaxies and the formation of stars and planets. COM DEV provided two systems for the project, the Fine Guidance sensor (FGS) and the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS), one of the four science instruments on the telescope.


The Valley of the Moon Observatory Association will host multiple screenings of The First 70 at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park on Saturday May 19th in the Robert Ferguson Observatory. The film will screen on the hour from 10am to 3pm, and again at 9pm and 11pm. Catch a free daytime solar viewing or gaze through one of their state of the art telescopes after one of the nighttime screenings. The screenings are free to attend, but a suggested donation will go directly to help keep Sugarloaf Ridge open. Park entry fee is $8 per vehicle. Evening telescope viewing is $3. Filmmakers will be in attendance.
Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and the observatory were closed earlier in the year. We’re relieved that the state is now working with several organizations to assume operation of the park.


A Look Back 44 Years After The Apollo 13 Mission
Thanks in part to Ron Howard’s space odyssey movie, Apollo 13, several generations are very aware of what happened in one of the most incredible survival stories in NASA’s history, when the 1970 mission went terribly wrong and changed from an obscure event to one that captured the attention of millions, who were glued to their television sets for days.
Swigert, 38, was originally the back-up command module pilot, but was added as part of the crew just 48-hours before Apollo 13 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center, when Ken Mattingly was inadvertently exposed to the German measles and NASA scratched him off the voyage, despite Captain Lovell’s protests.
The veteran Lovell, 42, had 572 spaceflight hours of experience according to Space.com, and had participated in three missions including Apollo 8, which was the first to circle the moon, plus two other Gemini missions.
Lovell had been in line for the Apollo 14 but was bumped up to Apollo 13, and the German measles that Mattingly was exposed to that took him off Apollo 13 never materialized, but he became an integral part of the Mission Control team working to get the three men back.
The spacecraft was actually two separate modules, the orbiter called the Odyssey, and the lander named Aquarius. On April 13, 1970, while the crew was about 200,000 miles from the Earth, a mission control staff detected a low-pressure warning signal on a hydrogen tank in the Odyssey, and when Swigert flipped the switch to see if it would reset, disaster struck as the whole aircraft shook, taking the crew by surprise.


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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
When Will the Eclipse Happen?
The eclipse begins with the partial phase, when the moon enters Earth's dark shadow (also called the umbra shadow). That begins at 2:15 a.m. PDT (5:15 a.m. EDT). Then the umbral shadow will spread across the moon's disk, moving from left to right.
At 3:25 a.m. PDT (6:25 a.m. EDT) totality begins, when the moon is fully engulfed in the umbral shadow and turns a shade of orange red. The deepest or midpoint of the eclipse will be at 3:55 a.m. PDT, and totality continues until 4:24 a.m. PDT. The last phase of the partial eclipse ends at 5:34 a.m. PDT.
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Below is the excerpt from page 361 of Altai-Himalaya by Nicholas Roerich. A more poetic version of the sighting also appears in Shambhala 1930 by Nicholas Roerich, page 249.
..............On August fifth--something remarkable! We were in our camp in the Kukunor district, not far from the Humboldt chain. In the morning about half-past nine some of our caravaneers noticed a remarkably big black eagle flying above us. Seven of us began to watch this unusual bird. At the same moment another of our caravaneers remarked: "There is something far above the bird." And he shouted in astonishment. We all saw in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest. And we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly the oval form with shiny surface, one side which was brilliant from the sun.
As for English references concerning the Tunguska explosion, I would recommend The Fire Came By 1976 by John Baxter and Thomas Atkins (if you can find a copy).
Another rare one: Giant Meteorite 1966 by E.L Krinov pages 125-165.
And I have to mention a 1980 TV episode of Clark's Mysterious World entitled "The Great Siberian Explosion" because of all the cool film footage it shows from Leonid Kulik's expeditions.
Finally, a comprehensive and up to date account of Russian scientific study of the Tunguska Explosion from 1908 to the present--in English: The Tunguska Mystery 2009 by Vladimir Rubtsov.
As for webpages, I would currently recommend
A few more interesting facts about the Tunguska explosion:
I added a few things here after reading Mr. Rubtsov's book, highlighted in blue text.
Shortly after Kulik's third expedition in 1929, which lasted some 18 months, a colleague of his named Evgeny L. Krinov--who accompanied him on the expedition--proposed a south-eastern trajectory for the Tunguska object. His proposal was bolstered some 30 years later when the butterfly pattern of forest fall was fully realized. Even though the axis of the blast pattern pointed to an even sharper east to west trajectory than Krinov had suggested, it would seem the exploding meteor theory had reached a point of fruition. However, according to the late Nickolai Vasilyev, when those witnesses who lived east of the epicenter--near the town of Preobrazhenka--were subsequently interviewed, they apparently all reported a low flying object that passed over in the afternoon (par for the course).
Krinov might have gotten it right for all I know, but, again, without the ability to review all of the witness statements, I can't really draw any definite conclusions of my own regarding how well a certain trajectory might fit the witness statements. Really, I could do so much more with a comprehensive translation of the witness accounts. Common sense would say that there must have been some good reason why an aerodynamics professor (Zigel) would be so inclined to choose a southern trajectory over a south-eastern one, and then try to rectify things by suggesting the object made an elaborate, last-minute course change, but who knows? Indeed, it appears that more than one Russian scientist has struggled to explain some major discrepancy in the witness statements. Felix Zigel, by the way, is the person who originally pointed out the unlikelihood of anyone hearing noises made by the object as they watched the object travel. A Russian scientist named Andrei Zlobin, apparently inspired by a particular eyewitness account, has suggested that the trajectory of the Tunguska object actually curved from an easterly one to a southerly one, and that the offset blast pattern--usually attributed to the object's weaker ballistic wave (shock wave) in conjunction with the much more powerful blast wave--was due to complex gas thermodynamics. (If you can understand what he is saying, let me know--it's all over my head.) He also is a proponent of the idea that the object passed directly over the trading post of Vanavara, thereby accounting for the intense heat that people felt there. However, one Vanavara witness clearly describes the heat blast as coming from the north--not from above. As you can see, it's difficult to arrive at a scenario that fits perfectly, especially in regards to the witness accounts.
No meteorite fragments of any appreciable size have ever been recovered. However, microscopic fragments have been found in the soil and trees which could have come from a meteor that caused the Tunguska explosion, although the amounts are barely above the normal dispersion of space dust. According to Mr. Rubtsov, all of the extra space dust in the entire forest fall area put together might equal a ton (TTM page 277). When you consider the fact that the Tunguska object, if it was indeed a 150' wide stony meteor, would have weighed many tens of thousand of tons even if it weighed in on the lighter side of meteors, one ton of material is really nothing at all.
There has been some rather unconventional theories put forth over the years regarding the Tunguska event: The first such theory was put forth in 1946 by a Russian scientist named Alexander Kasantsev. Kasantsev--in the form of a science fiction story--speculated that the Tunguska blast was the explosion of malfunctioning alien spaceship after he noted simularites between the Tunguska blast and the atomic bomb blasts over Japan. Since then, other unconventional theories include an "anti-rock" composed of anti-matter, or even a black hole. An especially wild theory has been put forth recently that the Tunguska object was "chased down" and detonated by an Earth based meteor defense installation constructed by aliens. Hidden alien installations aside, apparently, the author or authors are counting on a lack of common sense in the reader that once a meteor surpasses a certain range in size/mass, attempting to destroy it once it has entered the atmosphere is not really going to accomplish much and--in the case of the Tunguska "meteor"--would probably have just made matters worse.
Despite an enormous blast area that leveled some 1000 square miles of forest, the main force of the blast somehow managed to narrowly miss even the smallest of human settlements and did not result in the immediate death of a single human being; all of this while leaving a nicely detailed record of the event, small remnants of which can still be seen to this very day.
The eyewitness accounts, although open to some interpretation, seem to suggest that during, or immediately after the object flattened into a saucer shaped black cloud, a peculiar "shaft" of light or flame shot from the cloud. Described thusly: Kirensk--"A fiery pillar in the form of a spear"; Nizhne Karelinsk--"Turned into a fiery pillar and disappeared in a moment"; "A forked tongue of flame broke through the cloud"; Krasnoyarsk newspaper 1908--"A huge flame shot up and cut the sky in two"; Vanavera--"The sky was split in two."
This description does not seem to be of the object in flight or of the subsequent mushroom cloud that no doubt followed the explosion. Indeed, there are a number of historical UFO sightings that use the sword or beam analogy to describe some aspect of the sighting. Some currently misunderstood aspect of large meteors? Or something else?
The number of witness accounts that have been translated
English are fairly limited as of the time being. These two websites
stand out as having a little more than the usual scrap of information
about the witness accounts. The first one also contains another article
written by Nicholai Vasilyev (pronounced va-si-ly-ev) from
Magnetic disturbances recorded at the Irkutsk Observatory on June 30th, 1908 strongly resemble those caused by atmospheric nuclear explosions, with the exception of a 6 minute + lag time between the explosion itself and the start of the disturbances. This lag time was probably due to the time it took for the fireball to rise into the upper atmosphere (TTM page 172). The disturbances lasted for about 4 1/2 hours. Atmospheric nuclear explosions cause a distinctive magnetic disruption for a number of reasons, which, according to some scientists, the Tunguska blast should not have been able to produce. Although meteors are capable of causing magnetic disruptions as they pass through the ionosphere, no disruption by a meteor that compares with the Tunguska blast has ever been recorded.


As vast, timeless and limitless as space is, it has brought together two different people who enjoy its mysteries above all else.
Now a 13-year resident of Cedar Park, Donald Schliesser’s skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics leading the Houston native to the The Presidio of San Francisco in 1957 during his time in the U.S. Army. There, Schliesser became involved with the Nike Missile Organization. During the tense years of the Cold War, from 1953 to 1979, the United States Army built and operated close to 300 Nike missile sites in the United States. These sites were designed as the last line of defense against Soviet bombers. There were 16 missiles in the Bay Area, which Schliesser was assigned to protect, care and keep for three and a half years. Throughout his life, Schliesser, 83, has been a tinkerer and collector of gadgets.
“I have an avid interest in all sorts of things electronic,” he said. “I am a HAM-radio operator and I’ve enjoyed using my telescope.”
With a desire to know what lay beyond Earth’s atmosphere, Schliesser bought the state-of-the-art Celestron-8 telescope in Feb. 1980, which he used heavily throughout the 1980s and 90s.
“I had a huge interest in space and stars and the cosmos, and so I went out and bought it,” Schliesser continued. “Yet, over the past few years, I haven’t used it that much. It’s been sitting up in the attic, gathering dust. My kids, my grandkids, they just weren’t that interested in it. Then, I found out about Mason Azios and I thought that this would just make the perfect gift for him because he would really put it to good use. The telescope still has every bell and whistle you could get at that time.”
Amidst one of the many rain showers passing through town, Schliesser invited Mason and his family to his Cedar Park home to personally give him the telescope on Sept. 14. With a mirror 8 inches in diameter, the telescope has advanced capabilities, able to view and take pictures of stars, planets, moons, galaxies and other cosmic objects.
“This telescope had no problem showing me what a tiny, tiny speck I was compared to these giant beautiful planets and galaxies in space,” Schliesser laughed. “So I think Mason will have a lot of fun with it.”
Azios and Schliesser unboxed the telescope together, bonding over a shared love of space.
“I think this is unbelievable and I’ve always wanted to have a telescope,” Azios said. “I think it’s unbelievable because I’ve dreamed every day to be able to use one of these because I want to be an astronaut one day. Today, it’s actually happening.”
“When I learned about you,” Schliesser smiled as he told Azios. “I thought, “what a neat young man! This thing has been in up in my attic and I’m not going to use it any time soon so I need to find out if he would like it. And here you are.”
Azios, a sixth grader at Wiley Middle School, said he plans to use the telescope for his studies and will invite friends to use it for recreation. Azios recently attended Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., where America's space program all began. There, he worked with a team of his peers to tackled various mission scenarios that required critical problem solving and rational thinking throughout the week of July 15 to July 19.
Though space seems so distant and intangible, it certainly has the capacity to bring people together.


Jakarta, Indonesia CNN – Every year NASA Hubble telescope transmit photographs from space and time, which are sent photographs of the Jupiter. Two things are interesting from Jupiter is a rare sighting of a wave in the north of the equator of the planet and the famous red dot position of the planet, the Great Red Spot.
“Every time I see Jupiter, we always get new amazing things that is happening,” said Amy Simon, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told CS Monitor .. “This time was no exception.”
Hurricane-sized planets have been studied for more than 300 years. It turns out, from day to day, the storm is getting smaller and more rounded.
His name might be changed. Instead of still red, the storm was now looked weakened and the color had changed to orange. The size is 240 kilometers shorter than that observed in 2014.
Meanwhile, another interesting thing is the invisibility of a mysterious wave in the planet’s northern equatorial belt. This wave actually been detected in several decades ago, by the spacecraft Voyager 2, which glide in 1977.


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NASA iROC Project
Summer 2021 Internship Project
This animation was created in the summer of 2021 as part of my internship with SCaN.
It showcases the MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) in a modern art style while displaying the process of receiving a signal from the Perseverance rover on Mars, to the MRO, then to Earth. This animation helps educate the public on the advancements made in communication technologies and deep space communication.
The animation would also have a holographic after effects plugin created that would make it appear 3D and interactive.
Animations of the Upgraded Teletenna on the MRO
Visual of the animation within the after effects plugin and holographic environment
Here are images of the MRO 3D model I created and textured. You can see the final version as well as the standard surface version. There are also stills of the early developments within the Teletenna model.
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I know this is a lame thing to post about, but I'm watching the coolest show ever. It's about the geology of the moons of the planets!! But I'm all jealous, cuz there's one guy on and his title is "Triton Geologist". I don't think he's from there, though, I think he just studies it's geology.
The show is called 95 Worlds and Counting. It's about the moons in the solar system. Of course, they're not going to show all 95, but man, this is hella cool. A word of advice: if you visit Titan, DON'T LIGHT UP. The liquid on Titan is all made of natural gas! But it's in liquid form, because it's damn cold there.
WOOHOO that show was great. THey're doing lots of space-related shows tonight, it's excellent.
I love TV :)


So while I were reviewing some old works or pages from my book “Der Kampf”® (not to be confused with another book) Seeing the old pages helps me to develop new ideas or to use already rejected ideas in another way… So while I was thinking what the hell came over me when I wrote the text on that page it occurred to me what I could write in this post. (I do not dislike the words of the text but it did not convince me on how it turned out…)
In 1969, NASA touches down on the moon for the first time. The responses of the folks back on earth range from delight to incredulity upon hearing Neil Armstrong’s famous line about “One giant leap for mankind” so going to the moon provoked a lot of reactions. Actually I believe that the landing was real, why? Easy… as if the Russians hadn’t monitored everything and at the slightest suspicion that this could be a fake… I think you get the idea.
But what is more interesting is the fact that amongst the astronauts themselves going into space, dramatically changed the way they viewed life and humanity. This is called “The Overview Effect”, coined by the author Frank White in his book… “The Overview Effect”. It is the radical shift in perspective that comes from being able to step away from the Earth and see it from the distance.
White interviewed dozens of astronauts, and includes transcripts of their conversations in his book. As you might expect, the “Overview Effect” produces a lot of psychological wonder and spiritual reflection. But most pointedly, nearly every astronaut felt a sense of artificiality and absurdity about national identity, strife, and war… quiet interesting…
Here’s Russell Schweickart, who flew on Apollo 9, and looked back at Earth from a quarter-million miles away:
[The Earth] is so small and so fragile and such a precious little spot in the universe that you can block it out with your thumb, and you realize on that small spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it on that little spot out there that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed, that there’s something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was.
Schweickart later flew on Skylab, and described in this way the sensation of zooming repeatedly around the planet:
When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half … you look down there and you can’t imagine how many borders and boundaries you cross, again and again and again, and you don’t even see them … You’re really out there, going twenty-five thousand miles an hour, ripping through space, a vaccum. And there’s not a sound. There’s a silence the depth of which you’ve never experienced before, and that silence contrasts so markedly with the scenery you’re seeing and speed with which you know you’re moving.
Many of the astronauts say they were struck by how small the scale of a human life is compared to the infinity of time and space. This can, of course, sound like the typical “Hippies” epiphany, though one can understand that the Apollo crews actually lived the epiphany. As Edward Gibson, who flew on Apollo 12, puts it:
You see how diminutive your life and concerns are compared to other things in the universe. Your life and concerns are important to you, of course. But you can see that a lot of the things that you worry about don’t make much difference in an overall sense. The result is that you enjoy the life that is before you; you don’t sweat so much about the next milestone … It allows you to have inner peace.
Eugene Cernan, who flew on Apollos 10 and 17, and Gemini 9, and the last man to walk on the moon:
You can see from pole to pole and ocean to ocean without even turning your head …. You literally see North and South America go around the corner as the Earth turns on an axis you can’t see and then miraculously Australia, then Asia, than all of America comes up to replace them. You see a multicolored three-dimensional picture of Earth. You begin to see how little we understand of time. You ask yourself the question where really am I in space and time?
Others marveled at the deep aesthetic joys of the “Overview Effect”. In 1985, Edwin Garn flew on a Space Shuttle mission that attempted to rescue a satellite:
Toward the end of our mission, after we tried to rescue the satellite, I wanted to do one complete orbit of the Earth, uninterrupted, all the way around, which I did, floating on the flight deck, listening to Swan Lake. It was so fantastic and so beautiful, and I felt guilty, thinking about my family, my wife and seven kids. My feeling was that I’d seen and done it all, and I didn’t care whether I came back or not; it really didn’t make any difference. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, but if something happened, we didn’t come back, fine, so be it, just utter peace and contentment and fulfillment.
Many of the astronauts that White interviews argue that the experience would be a powerful political tonic, if you could somehow impel it upon the rulers of the planet. As Joseph Allen, a veteran of several Space-Shuttle flights, said:
A steady stream of world leaders should go into orbit. It would have a profound affect on their wisdom …. It is similar to the time of Copernicus; we have a broadened view of our place in the universe, and more educated view.
Is this actually true? Could more space travel—more first-person experiences of Overview, particularly by the powerful—actually reduce strife on Earth? White himself often drifts into this terrain. But many of the astronauts seem aware of the limits of this giddy boosterism. “It wouldn’t bring a utopia to this planet for people to understand it all,” as Cernan concludes, “but it might make a difference.”
Me, I confess I’m drawn to the romanticism of the “Overview Effect” seeing earth from space… wow… I like the idea of actively seeking out experiences that change our sense of self, and shift our perspective. And as White notes, one needn’t go to space to get a cosmic view. The Effect can be triggered by powerful art—anything that pivots you into a new way of seeing things, or, as Northrop Frye would put it, educates your imagination. A lot of environmentalists in the 1970s described seeing the famous Home, Sweet Home “Blue Marble” photo of the Earth—taken at 20,000 miles away by the receding Apollo 17 spacecraft—as the moment in realizing just how fragile the environment is.
In his book Moondust, the author Andrew Smith argues that the moon landing was in some respects an art project, as gesture “as primitive as song”. We went there not so much to see the moon as to gaze back at Earth. It was “a unique opportunity to look at ourselves,” he writes, an accomplishment less of technology than of aesthetics, culture, and spirituality. “How madly, perfectly human.” Many of the astronauts White interviews in “The Overview Effect” lament the difficulty they have in putting their new perspective into words, of communicating its sheerly alien quality to other people. Gemini X astronaut Michael Collins concluded that that the ideal crew for an Apollo mission would have been a “philosopher, a priest, and a poet.” (“Unfortunately,” he added, “they would kill themselves trying to fly the spacecraft.”)
Today, of course, some of our biggest challenges—I’m thinking specifically of global warming and overpopulation —require taking a massively global perspective. The era of human space exploration is in a relatively dormant period and I think that we could use some more opportunities to look back from the distance…


Stargazers, and ATM'ers! ...and Welcome to the web pages covering the
construction overview of the VSC's "SAO Jaegers 6" inch f/10 "Gelinda J.
Dawson' Refractor". To honor and cherish the memory of my dearly
beloved wife, Gelinda J. Dawson, I dedicated the construction of this
telescope. It represents the finest ATM effort I have done to this day,
and serves as a lasting monument to the love, compassion, and support she has
given me during our time together. I pray that each time I gaze through
its optics, I will feel her presents filling my soul with joy and
On July 9th,
2011, I purchased a vintage Jaegers 6” f/10 refractor objective for the
“GJD” from Surplus Shed, located in Fleetwood, PA. It cost $430.00 (cost+shipping),
a fraction of the cost of the original price of $1750.00 offered by A.
Jaegers' son (prior to the buyout by Surplus Shed the same year). The
elements were uncoated, for which I had them AR coated by Majestic Optical
Coatings, based in Clark, NJ. The objective cell, focuser backplate and
focuser support ring were all fabricated by Eric Moerman of Belgium, a
dear friend and fellow ATM'er who also made the clock drive for my 10”
Fork Mounted Newtonian. The main tube is a 50” length of 7” diameter
6061-T6 aluminum tubing with a wall thickness of .083” and was purchased
from Air Flow Systems, based in Portland, OR. It is flocked with ProtoStar
“FlockBoard” flocking material that is .040” thick. The dew shield is 8”
in diameter and 12” long, with a wall thickness of .083”, and is flocked
with spray-on Rustoleum Truck Bed Coating that is covered with Rustoleum
Black Camouflage spray paint. The focuser is a GSO 2” dual-speed (10:1)
Crayford with a 7” drawtube with 5.250” of travel that was salvaged from a
Meade 5000 80mm APO focuser. The four baffle rack is constructed from
.250” thick clear sanded polycarbonate flocked with Rustoleum Black
Camouflage spray paint, and spaced strategically using three 1/4-20
threaded rods and hardware. After precise measuring, the rack snugly fits
in the main tube without hardware much like the one in my Carton 100mm
f/13 “Mary Dawson” refractor. The exterior of the main tube is painted
with Rustoleum “Sail Blue” (a.k.a. “Vega Blue”) spray enamel, and the
exposed areas of the objective cell, focuser backplate and support ring
were all painted with Rustoleum Black Hammered Finish spray paint.
and constructing the Jaeger 6” f/10 “GJD” Achromatic Refractor, I wanted
to build an instrument that would withstand the tests of time and provide
many years of observing pleasure. I believe this has been accomplished.
The highly praised vintage Jaegers optics in this telescope are awesome
and has great provenance within the astronomical community. I find myself
truly privileged to own these historic optics and to use them in the scope
I have named in honor of my wife, Gelinda J. Dawson.
Much like the
Carton 100mm f/13 “Mary Dawson” refractor, I built the GJD refractor with
longevity in mind. All metal components used are rust resistant and should
last a lifetime. The objective cell components, focuser backplate and
focuser support ring were all professionally milled from a single 10”x10”
billet of 6061-T6 aluminum by my friend Eric Moerman, an awesome machinist
and ATM'er in Belgium. Both objective cell and focuser support ring can be
collimated to align the optical train precisely for better image quality.
The use of the quality GSO Crayford focuser aids in reducing off-axis
misalignment and backlash, which were plagues of the rack and pinion
focusers of old. To render high contrast images that makes you wonder
where the edge-of-field is in many eyepieces, I used ProtoStar “FlockBoard”
flocking material, along with four (4) strategically placed knife-edge
baffles within the main tube. I plan to use this instrument for visual, as
well as for astrophotography. It should prove worthy in both arenas. I
feel confident Gelinda would be pleased to have this telescope named in
LIGHT REPORT – JUNE
Finally! I was
able to conduct First Light despite degraded sky conditions last night
(06/17/2013). Ultimately, it was a mad rush to test the scope on a limited
number of objects before the clouds moved in.
In surveying the
current weather conditions in the area, I noticed that my First Light
session was going to be short lived. Storms to the east and a mass of
cottony stratocumulus clouds from the southeast were moving in. The
temperature was in the low 80’s, no breeze, and the relative humidity was
near 90%. It was truly uncomfortable.
My first subject was the
waxing gibbous moon. It was about 45 degrees above the western horizon.
Without allowing for acclimation, I took aim at the moon and brought it to
focus. I was very impressed with how sharp the item was with the use of
TeleVue 31mm Nagler; yielding a magnification of 49x. BUT, there was some
CA around the moons limb, with hints of purple and green detected as I
moved my eye about the eye lens. On axis, CA faded significantly.
next performed a star test on Antares as it loomed in the southern sky to
check collimation. In focus, I noticed that the tight diffraction rings
were more prominent on one side of the star. Then, I racked the focuser
out a bit to see Antares’ airy disk. I immediately noticed the bright spot
within the air disk was off center by more than have the disk’s radius!
That is very substantial, I thought! I also figured it could be aiding in
cause of the CA I was detecting to a degree. Not 100% percent of it, but a
Moving on quickly with degrading weather, I trained
the Jaegers 152/1524 on Saturn using a Pentax 12mm XF ocular. Despite the
misalignment of the optics and weather, the ringed planet snapped into
view quite well. Before long, I only had enough time to capture a few
shots of the moon before clouds filled the sky completely. An image is
shown in my next post.
Well, it looks like I have some work to do
in getting the GJD aligned. Typically, I perform a laser collimation of
the optics, but I did not plan to do it until after First Light. So, I
must get to work.
Sincerely, Mel Dawson
..."Clear Skies, Forever!"


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The Weather Channel has gone all in on the Great American Eclipse. They have reporters positioned all along the path of the eclipse. On Sunday at Noon, Weather Geeks, for around 120 episodes, tries to take you inside the science of weather, climate, and related technology. So it should be no surprise that we are having the ultimate “geek out” on the eve of the Great American Eclipse.
There is so much information to convey. I recently spoke to an elementary school group and the discussion was wide-ranging. The kids and I had discussions about:
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Weather Geeks takes a look at some of these same questions but in the way that you have come to expect from the show. Sunday, I sit down with world-renowned eclipse expert, Dr. Tyler Nordgren. He is an astronomer at the University of Redlands and the Author of Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets. Dr. Nordgren is also an artist. You may have seen some of his work, Astronomer-Night Sky Ambassador.
Trust me when I tell you that Dr. Nordgren knows pretty much everything there is to know about eclipses. He has experienced or chased them multiple times all over the world. As we all prepare for this celestial show, Sunday’s Weather Geeks is the perfect “pre-game show” primer.
Join us for an all-new episode of Weather Geeks this weekend. The show always airs Noon ET (11 am CT, 10 am MT, 9 am PT) on The Weather Channel.


When taking a look at an avenue of different renewable energy sources, solar power can be considered a highly viable solution in generating electricity for our daily needs. Solar power is the generation of electricity by leveraging the energy of the sun.
The sun is a medium sized star that sits in the middle of the solar system. It is also the largest body in our solar system with a diameter of just under 1.4 million kilometres. To put in perspective, the size of the sun is one million times larger to that of the Earth.
According to National Geographic’s documentation of the sun, it can be said that each hour the sun beams more than enough energy onto the Earth to satisfy global energy needs for the entire year. However without the appropriate technology to capture this, the generated energy can not be converted to useful electricity.
The technology that is available today to convert the sun’s energy into usable electricity only produces around one tenth of a per cent of the world’s global energy demand. With such a valuable source of energy and ease of access to it, the proportion of solar power that should be generated, should be much higher.
Currently, the most common technology available to capture solar energy include solar photovoltaic cells, that convert the sun’s energy into usable electricity as it hits the photovoltaic modules either in the form of solar panels on rooftops, building integrated solar photovoltaics, solar shingles, and other forms of thin film solar modules.
With the increase in competition in the solar manufacturing industry, the price of solar panels have dropped significantly over the last few years, with constant improvements in increased conversion rates. With these market conditions, now more than ever, is the best time to install a solar system to make the most of the sun’s generous energy.
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Hallstatt town is well known city in Austria. Unfortunately you can only see a faint of the Milky Way. Due to light pollution but I tried my best to get a capture of the Milky Way. It is at least a bit different than the thousands of other shots from Hallstatt Austria.
The foreground was almost too bright and this lens is pretty prone to flares. To see at least some details of the Milky Way I had to stack 15 exposures of the sky. Could be better, but at least you can see the Milky Way.
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- Sony A7II – Irix 15/2.4
- Sky: ISO 3200 – f/2.8 – 25s – 15 exposures Stacked in SLS
- City: ISO 400 – f/8.0 – 30s


The Smithsonian planetarium projector lets you explore the universe. The stars, moons, asteroids, and other celestial bodies down to your little one's bed room. The Smithsonian projector is equipped with a rotating star pattern of the northern sky with spectacular HD images of the planets. This includes 4 interchangeable slide disks, 24 HD space images, and star pattern of the northern sky. Plastic. Auto shutoff. Ages 8 and up.
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The International Business Times claims a Dallas mother recently asked the Perot Museum of Nature and Science if they could move their solar eclipse party to the weekend. She said; “Can it be done on the weekend?”
Other parents react ….
“Did this lady just ask to reschedule the sun?”
“I’d like to reschedule the eclipse, too. My cat is getting married that day. We’ve paid deposits!”
“It’s all good, everyone. I just got my time machine fixed. You can reschedule it for whenever, I’ll just go see it yesterday.”
The eclipse will occur on August 21st.
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HORIBA Jobin Yvon Grating in ROSETTA Mission
ESA’s comet-chasing mission Rosetta was launched on the 2nd of March 2004 and through a complex series of flybys (three times past Earth and once past Mars) arrived ten years after at its destination: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
In June 2011, Rosetta was put into deep-space hibernation for the coldest, most distant leg of the journey (800 million kilometres from the sun) and was woken up on 20th of January 2014. Finally, Rosetta was set on comet’s orbit on August 2014 to achieve a successful landing of Philae lander on 12th of November 2014.
Comets are the primitive building blocks of the Solar System and the likely source of many elements such as water and perhaps the ingredients that helped life evolve. By studying the nature of a comet close up with an orbiter and a lander, Rosetta will show us more about the role of comets in the evolution of the Solar System.
Rosetta orbiter consists in 11 state-of-the-art instruments. Among these 11 instruments, the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer – ALICE instrument is equipped with a HORIBA Jobin Yvon diffraction grating. ALICE is a lightweight (2.2 kg), low power (2.9 W) imaging spectrograph optimized for cometary far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. With a spectral range from 70 to 205 nm, ALICE role is to make measurements of noble gas abundances and atomic budget in the coma, and major ion abundances in the tail and in the region where solar wind particles interact with the ionosphere of the comet. ALICE determines the production rates, variability, and structure of H2O, CO, and CO2 gas surrounding the nucleus and the FUV properties of solid grains in the coma. ALICE began mapping the comet’s surface last August, recording the first FUV light spectra of the comet’s surface. From the data, the Alice team discovered the comet is unusually dark when viewed in UV wavelengths. ALICE also detected both hydrogen and oxygen in the comet’s coma, or atmosphere.
The key optical component of the ALICE instrument is the toroidal holographic replica diffraction grating manufactured by HORIBA Jobin Yvon in 1999. The development of this grating batch was the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI – USA), and HORIBA Jobin Yvon’s team.
The ALICE diffraction grating, with a groove density of 1600 gr/mm, made on a metallic material substrate to minimize the weight, was optimized to work in a Rowland Circle type imaging spectrograph. Thanks to the holographic recording and space-qualified (TRL 9) replication process, the ALICE grating exhibited low stray light and no ghost. The grating active area is 35 mm in the dispersion direction by 20 mm in the spatial dimension. The spectrograph uses the first diffraction order through the full spectral bandpass 70 nm – 205 nm. The spectral resolution was measured between 0.98 and 1.25 nm with a spectral resolving power of 55-200.
After more than 15 years of life, with more than 10 years of operation in a space environment during the Rosetta journey, the ALICE holographic replica grating has kept its initial high performance and continues to bring to the scientific community extraordinary discoveries.
This successful common design of the spectrograph and the grating was re-used for other space- flight missions such as LAMP, Juno-UVS, ...
HORIBA Jobin Yvon S.A.S. company, part of HORIBA Scientific (HORIBA Group), is a world leading supplier of spectroscopy, analytical instruments and diffractive optics for research and industry. HORIBA Jobin Yvon has been selected and has participated in a large number of NASA or ESA space- flight missions by developing very high performance diffraction gratings for spectrographs. HORIBA Jobin Yvon designs, manufactures and tests a large range of scientific diffraction gratings for Lasers, Space flight and Synchrotron applications.
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