UV Astronomy from the Moon
One of the earlier projects in imaging UV astronomy used an all-reflecting
Schmidt camera identical to this engineering version (now at the Johnson
Space Flight Center), set up in the shadow of the Apollo 16 Lunar
Module. Relatively long exposures could be used even without provision
for tracking, thanks to the slow lunar rotation. Interesting images
of several Milky Way field, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the
Earth's hydrogen halo were obtained.
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