Two images by Mike Salway, based in Australia have been published at LPOD lunar photo of the day.

Chuck Wood, the maintainer of LPOD, writes:

Craters have a family resemblance, but their relationship is based on physics not blood. The impact process is a complex balance of forces, with the energy of impact working against the force of gravity and the bond strength of rocks. For craters with diameters larger than about 30 km the tremendous kinetic energy of impact largely overwhelms variations due to target characteristics, and large craters look pretty much alike.

Mike captured these images with The Imaging Source DMK 21AF04:

http://www.lpod.org/?p=1149

Mike’s rig: 12″ newt on EQ6, DMK 21AF04, 5x powermate and astronomik R filter.

We are currently actively soliciting dealers for our astronomy cameras.

Following our recent advert in Sky and Telescope, several dealers have contacted us and we are in the process of setting up dealer accounts with them.

However, we are still looking for dealers throughout the world.

If you are the owner of a store (either physical or online), and would like to resell The Imaging Source astronomy cameras, please contact us.

We are able to offer very good dealer rates!

Over at Kokogiak, Alan Taylor has published a very impressive mosaic image. It shows all known bodies in the Solar System whose diameter is larger than 320 km (500 miles).

He writes:

It’s just one of those things I’ve been itching to make for a long while, frankly because I wanted to see it - a visual listing of objects in the Solar System, ordered by size.
[...]
The larger planets and Sun just bleed off the page, but still give a sense of scale by the visible curve of their limbs.

Alan has published two versions: One in metric measurements; the other in imperial:

Metric Version (click to enlarge)

Imperial Version (click to enlarge)

Readers of Sky & Telescope may already have seen this: Our first Sky & Telescope advert was published in the July 2007 edition that is currently being sent to subscribers and will hit newsstands in a few days.

We used the images of several customers in this advert. We would like to thank the following people for permitting us to use their work:

• Dominique Dierick
• Christopher Go
• George Tarsoudis
• Edward Roach
• Marco Sellini
• Sebastian Voltmer

Below is the advert. You can also download the large version and PDF version.

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