The South-east Quadrant 
This is the south-east area of the Moon, south of latitude 34° south and east of the prime meridian. It was taken almost two days after Full Moon, so the edge is the terminator, not the limb. A picture that extends this one into the libration zone (albeit at a larger scale) can be found on my picture of the SE Libration Zone. The libration was favourable for this area at -5° 21' in Latitude and +2° 50' in Longitude.
Both pictures are mosaics of three pictures. Move your mouse over the first picture to see the names of some of the craters. The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and west and apply at Pitiscus.
| Date and Time |
15th March 2017 23:55 UT |
| Libration |
Latitude -5° 21' Longitude +2° 50' |
| Colongitude |
126.6 |
| Camera |
DMK 21AF04 |
| Telescope |
8-inch Ritchey-Chrétien with OIII filter |
| Capture |
ICCapture 1795 frames, 1/54 sec, gain 779 |
| Processing for each picture. |
Registax6, 48, 42, 42 alignment points, 100 frames stacked per alignment point, default wavelets 1-2 = 5.
Mosaic composed in iMerge, brightness reduced slightly and Focus magic 3 pixels in PhotoImpact.
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The first picture, above, was made from images taken using my recently-aquired 8-inch Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. For comparison, below, I repeated the imaging using my 5-inch Maksutov reflector. I tried to process the images as similarly as possible so that any differences are due to the different optics. To see smaller versions side by side, click here.
| Date and Time |
15th March 2017 23:30 UT |
| Libration |
Latitude -5° 21' Longitude +2° 50' |
| Colongitude |
126.6 |
| Camera |
DMK 21AF04 |
| Telescope |
ETX125 with OIII filter |
| Capture |
ICCapture 1795 frames, 1/54 sec, gain 779 |
| Processing for each picture. |
Registax6, 31, 38, 39 alignment points, 100 frames stacked per alignment point, default wavelets 1-2 = 5.
Mosaic composed in iMerge, brightness reduced slightly and Focus magic 4 pixels in PhotoImpact.
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