The Observers Notebook-Lunar Transient Phenomena

Episode 20 In this episode of the Observers Notebook podcast, host Tim Robertson talks to the Lunar Transient Phenomena Section Coordinator, Tony Cook. Tony gives us a brief history of the Lunar Transient Phenomena Section and discusses what type of equipment is needed to contribute to the section, and also the various observing programs available, and contact information. You can contact Tony at: tony.cook@alpo-astronomy.org The Twitter LTP alert site is on: https://twitter.com/lunarnaut For Repeat illumination predications of features to observe to match past LTP observers can use: http://users.aber.ac.uk/atc/lunar_schedule.htm If there are not enough objects on the Moon to study they can try a less sanitized version: http://users.aber.ac.uk/atc/tlp/tlp.htm In terms of work done elsewhere on LTP there is a good page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_lunar_phenomenon A very good account of the 1963 Aristarchus event by Greenacre and Barr can be found on: http://www.the1963aristarchusevents.com/ One recent astronomer who studied LTP statistics was Prof. Arlin Crotts (1958-2015) of Columbia University http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~arlin/TLP/index.html For more information you can visit the ALPO web site at: www.alpo-astronomy.org/ You can also support this podcast at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ObserversNotebook Listen to the podcast on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/observersnotebook Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/observers-notebook-the-alpo-podcast/id1199301885?mt=2 I want to thank the Producer of this podcast, Steve Siedentop for his generous support of the Observers Notebook.