The North-east

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	This is a rugged area just to the east of the north pole.  All the craters in this picture are considerably foreshortened and, for this reason, the depths of many of them are not well known.  W Bond is a large (163 Km), very old (4,000 million years) and battered crater with what looks like a fairly rough floor.  North of this is Barrow, 95 Km in diameter and about 3,900 million years old.  To the east is Meton which merges with Meton C, D, E, and F making a very extensive formation with a flat floor. The libration is only slightly favourable in latitude (2° 55');  the libration in longitude is 7° 14'. One scale marker points along the prime meridian and is 100 Km at the region between Barrow and W Bond, but the scale varies enormously in the north-south direction.  The other marker is approximately 100 Km east and applies at W Bond but the scale in this direction is not much affected by perspective. The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 19th December 2004 at 17:57 UT, when the Moon was 8.4 days old. Lunar Phase: 77.2° Colongitude: 5.4° Date and Time: 19th December 2004 17:57 UT Camera: ToUcam 740K Telescope: LX200 at prime focus Capture: K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/250", 9% gain, 309 frames Processing: Registax. 57 frames stacked. Wavelet 1-3 = 10, histogram 0-200, gamma 1.2, contrast 70
	This is the area just south of the one above and almost links it to the one below.  It was taken much later in the lunar cycle than the one above, so that the edge is the terminator, not the limb.  The libration is similar, but the lighting is from the other direction. The picture was taken with my Toucam 740 at prime focus of my LX200 on 10th September 2006 21:51 UT when the Moon was 18.4 days old. The scale markers are very approximately 100 Km north and west and apply at Arnold. Lunar Phase: 316.1° Colongitude: 128.7° Date and Time: 10 September 2006 21:51 UT Camera: ToUcam 740K Telescope: LX200 at prime focus Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/100", 20% gain, 456 frames Processing: Registax. 455 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5
	This is the area just to the south of the area shown above. This picture was taken when the Moon was 16.6 days old, or less than two days after full Moon, so the lighting is a little flat and the craters do not show up well.  Endymion is 130 Km in diameter and 4600 metres deep.  De la Rue is slightly larger at 140 Km but is much less deep although it is about the same age. The libration was neutral for this part of the Moon. The scale markers are necessarily unreliable here but represent approximately 100 Km north and west and apply at Atlas. The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 17th November 2005 at 20:18 UT, when the Moon was 16.6 days old. Lunar Phase: 226.5° Colongitude: 228.6° Date and Time: 17 November 2005 20:18 UT Camera: ToUcam 740K Telescope: LX200 at prime focus Capture: K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/100", 4% gain, 388 frames Processing: Registax. 100 frames stacked. Wavelet 1-2 = 10, histogram 10-200, gamma 1.2

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