A blog about a telescopic system at the Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii to determine terrestrial albedo by earthshine observations. Feasible thanks to sheer determination.
Mathilde Saltoft Schou worked on the ISS images of the New Moon obtained by astronaut Andreas Mogensen. She based her Bachelor’s Thesis on this work. The thesis will be available here.
Effect of aligning multiple ISS images without (left) also rotating the images, and with (right).
Starting August 2023 the ISS will have onboard the danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen who will perform several experiments for danish scientists specifically.
We suggested that the impact of scattered light from the lunar bright side onto the dark side could be investigated in an experiment based on comparing images of the Moon taken from space with simultaneous images taken from the ground.
https://ufm.dk/forskning-og-innovation/rumomradet/aktuelt/nyheder/2023/tag-et-billede-af-nymanen-for-dmi2019s-huginn-forsog-earthshine
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Illuminating_Earth_s_shine
Old friend, and Bishop, Nick Knisely talks about the ISS earthshine experiment on his blog: https://entangledstates.org/2023/08/22/calling-all-citizen-scientists-lunar-photos-needed-for-climate-research/
Thanks Nick!
