Can a Backyard Telescope Find NASA’s Artemis 4 Landing Site?

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[00:00:01]Humans are going back to the Moon More than 50 years after Apollo But this time… they’re landing near the south pole Somewhere in this region… Artemis astronauts are expected to land in 2028 Can we see this landing region through a backyard telescope......over 360,000 km from Earth?

[00:00:46]The view looks promising… but can we actually find the landing region?

[00:00:53]Here’s the setup I’m using C9.25 telescope, great for close-up views of the Moon AM5N mount, keeps the Moon steady as we zoom in I’ll be using two eyepieces… for different magnifications Once the sky gets dark… I go straight to the Moon I’m mounting the phone over the eyepiece, so you can see what I see I’m starting with a 25mm eyepiece… about 80x magnification From the southern hemisphere… the Moon appears upside down So the south pole is at the top here Let’s get closer... switching to a 6mm eyepiece, about 345x Mounting the phone again so you can see what I see Heading to the south pole… let’s see if we can find the landing region This is where the hand controller comes in handy Now we’re much closer… but it’s still hard to tell So I need a better way to find it I’ll compare my eyepiece view with a high-resolution 3D model of the Moon These are NASA’s proposed landing regions for Artemis Then I match them to this high-resolution 3D model I’ll focus on the Nobile area, because it is easier to recognise Then I zoom out to match the view through my telescope Now I know where to look in my eyepiece view Using the model, I can trace the craters towards the landing region Now let’s pan the telescope, starting from Albategnius in the central highlands We found it… this is where Artemis could land!

[00:04:39]Right at the edge of the Moon in my eyepiece view This is how it looks from the northern hemisphere We can just see this region… right at the edge, because it faces Earth And from there... Artemis astronauts will be looking back at us Returning to the Moon… is just the next step Maybe one day… we’ll go further