This inverted image with south at the top and east to the left somhow looks more natural
than the conventional "north at the top" view. I suppose it looks more as it would if
you were flying over the Moon looking down on it.
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Bailly is a large (311 kilometres in diameter), 3,900 million year old crater in the
far south-west of the Moon. The libration is slightly favourable but nevertheless
the crater appears grossly distorted due to perspective, and I have found it difficult
to identify many other of the numerous craters in this area.
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The picture was taken in infra-red light with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 31st August 2005 at 04:40 UT when the Moon was 26.3 days old.
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| Date and Time |
31st August 2005 04:40 UT |
Camera |
ToUcam 740K |
Telescope |
LX200 at prime focus (FL 2500 mm) with IR-pass filter |
Capture |
K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/25", 61% gain, 467 frames |
Processing |
Registax. 166 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-2 = 10, gamma 1.5, brightness -4 |
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