The South Home

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A wide-angle picture of the south-polar area.  A larger mosaic of part of this area can be found here.
I have made no effort to show scale markers on this picture.  They would hardly be meaningful (see below).
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 23rd September 2005 at 03:26 UT, when the Moon was 20.1 days old.

Date and Time: 23rd September 2005 at 03:26 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with 0.33 focal reducer and IR-pass filter
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/33", 22% gain, 304 frames
Processing: Registax. 45 frames stacked. Wavelet 1 = 10
A closer picture of the south-polar area.  The libration (-5° in latitude) was quite favourable, so the South Pole is, in theory, visible.  I have indicated about where it is with an arrow pointing up the prime meridian.
The scale markers indicate approximately 50 Km north and east and apply at Moretus (which is 117 Km in diameter).  The north-south scale changes dramatically as one approaches the south pole as does the direction of east. The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 23rd September 2005 at 02:10 UT, when the Moon was 20.1 days old.

Date and Time: 23rd September 2005 at 02:10 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with IR-pass filter
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/25", 36% gain, 314 frames
Processing: Registax. 109 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5, gamma 1.3
The same area as above but with the light coming from the other diection, but the libration in latitude is zero.  The change in lighting has brought Scott partially into view.
Again one scale marker points up the prime meridian, which will not be quite straight as the longitudinal libration was 4°.  The second marker is approximately 100 Km west and applies at Moretus.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 10th December 2005 at 17:13 UT, when the Moon was 9.8 days old.

Date and Time: 10th December 2005 17:13 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with IR-pass filter
Capture: K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/33", 19% gain, 545 frames
Processing: Registax. 136 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5, histogram 30-255
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