The North-west Home

Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters.

This is the north-western limb of the Moon. These areas are difficult to image well. Not only are the features foreshortened by perspective, so are the shadows and the lighting is never right. At full Moon the light is coming from behind the camera, so we don't see the shadows that are there. Here we see the area at sunset, but the light is coming towards the camera and reflections make the surface bright.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my ETX125 on 24th August 2003, when the Moon was 24.9 days old.
Date and Time 23rd August 2003 03:06 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope ETX125 at prime focus
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/25", 40% gain, 187 frames
Processing Registax. 30 frames stacked. Wavelet 1-3 = 5 
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