Earth observations from the Moon's surface: dependence on lunar libration

Gorkavyi, Nick; Krotkov, Nickolay; Marshak, Alexander

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1527-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1527-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1527-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

Research article

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24 Mar 2023

Research article |

| 24 Mar 2023

Earth observations from the Moon's surface: dependence on lunar libration

Nick Gorkavyi, Nickolay Krotkov, and Alexander Marshak

Data sets

Planetary Ephemeris Data F. Espenak http://www.astropixels.com/ephemeris/ephemeris.html

Short summary

The article discusses topical issues of the visible (libration) motion of the Earth in the sky of the Moon in a rectangle measuring 13.4° × 15.8°. On the one hand, the librations of the Moon make these observations difficult. On the other hand, they can be used as a natural scanning mechanism for cameras and spectroscopes mounted on a fixed platform on the surface of the Moon.