Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters. This is a mosaic of two pictures taken about 37 hours before third quarter. It covers an area from the north pole to Alps.
The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and west and apply at Mons Blanc.
The picture was taken with a DMK camera attached to my LX200 on 31st August 2010 at 04:42 UT, when the Moon was 20.7 days old.
Lunar Phase: 288.9°
Colongitude: 167.8°
Date and Time: 31st August 2010 04:47 UT
Camera: DMK 21AF04
Telescope: LX200 at prime focus with IR-pass filter
Capture: ICCapture. 1/108", gain 716
Processing: Registax. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5, gamma 1.2
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