Crater Jansky

[Andrew Thomas]

I am updating a presentation about radio astronomy and I would like to include a picture of Crater Jansky. Carl Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves in the early 1930’s and is credited with the first detection. He has a unit of measurement and a lunar crater named after him.

I am wondering if any of the lunar observers have a picture, photograph or sketch which they would allow me to use.

Wikipedia gives its coordinates as 8.63°N 89.5°E.

Best regards
Andrew Thomas

[Dawson]

Andrew,

Dave Finnigan has a really spectacular image of Mare Marginis from 2023 which features Jansky. It’s a fairly hard crater to image. I’ve taken the liberty of making an animated gif of Dave’s image to show which crater is Jansky. I would contact Dave and see if he is happy for you to use it.

https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20231230_131753_cd0ed773ce4ed1ce

You could also email Tony Cook, the Lunar Section Director and see if he has any images of it in the BAA archives. I will add this crater to my list of things to try and observe.

Good luck with the talk.

James

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[Dr Paul Leyland]

This may sound like a silly question, but why not use the one on the Wikipedia page as viewed by Lunar Orbiter 4?

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