Lunar Parallax Demonstration Project

LPDP - Parallax Results: Narrow Field, Local (Europe)

Narrow field refers to the fact that these images were submitted with the Moon as a large disk almost filling the image frame. The resulting star field is small in size but lends itself to extreme accuracy.

Local means that the observers were all within several hundred kilometers of each other.

Local European Observers Composite Image (01h20m UT)

Brussels, Belgium / Maldon, Essex / Glasgow, Scotland Approximately 300km Three image composite - positions accurate for each observer.

Each parallax example below is shown as a pair of animations. The upper image shows the difference between the observer's images keeping the background stars fixed in position. The lower image shows the difference between the observer's images keeping the Moon fixed in position.

Moving East-West (01h20m UT)

Brussels, Belgium <--> Maldon, Essex Approximately 300km Stars fixed

Brussels, Belgium <--> Maldon, Essex Approximately 300km Moon fixed

Moving North-South (01h20m UT)

Glasgow, Scotland <--> Maldon, Essex Approximately 500km Stars fixed

Glasgow, Scotland <--> Maldon, Essex Approximately 500km Moon fixed

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