Tom Munnecke’s Eclectica

These are two images of the Cabeus crater at the south pole of the moon taken by the 200” inch telescope from Mt. Palomar on Oct 9, 2009 at the time of the LCROSS moon landing. Click Here to See them They were taken 12 minutes apart. The slight movement of the moon (libration) during this time is evident in the raw video

I took the first and last frames of the video, and put them together above to show a stereoscopic effect. If you cross your eyes so that you create a third overlapping image in the center (“wall-eyed” viewing) you should be able to see a depth to the craters.

And here is another attempt to do a stereo image of a Black Hole.

I’ll be watching the LCROSS impact on the moon this Friday morning from a 22″ telescope in Anza, California. I thought it would be nice to have some music to listen to while watching it, so I asked my favorite composer Kevin MacLeod if he would be interested in composing something special.

We tossed around some ideas, and he came up with this amazing piece: called Impact. You can download the smaller MP3 version, or the larger WAV version. This is meant to start exactly 11 minutes before impact, and has a voiceover counting down the time to impact. This is royalty-free music, so feel free to pass it freely according to Kevin’s license agreement.

Enjoy!