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A trip along the terminator when the Moon was 12.3 days old (phase28.9°, colongitude 61.2°).
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In the right-hand column is a picture of the whole Moon (at about the same phase) indicating where the feature is situated. 23 May 2010
A new picture of Mare Humboldtianum at a time of very favourable libration but flatter lighting than my previous picture.
27 March 2010
The southern end. Longomontanus, Scheiner, Blanchanus.
Schiller is possibly the only truly elliptical crater on the Moon
The area between Vieta and Schickard.
This is the southern end of Mare Humorum.
And the northern end of Mare Humorum.
Here is the southern end of Oceanus Procellarum.
This picture is of the area just south of the one below.
A picture of the junction between Sinus Roris and Mare Frigoris.
A new picture of the north polar area of the Moon. It was taken when the position of the Moon favoured observing the far north as both the libration and the angle of the Sun were favourable.
Earlier pictures from 2009
A large-scale mosaic of the 8-day Moon made in high resolution with my MX716 camera and LX200 with focal reducer. The link takes you to the Day-8 page of my phases collection from which the full-scale mosaic is available by clicking on the right-hand image. The two images on my Day-8 page illustrate the effects of libration on our view of the Moon.
Two first-light pictures taken with my new DMK camera from my new observatory. They were taken rather hurriedly at 0400 when an unexpected clear morning appeared. The first picture is of the area around Moretus, the second of the Lunar Alps.
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