Page 2: The East. Page 1: The South East Page 3: The North East Page 4: The West Page 5: The North West Page 6: The South West.
Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters.
Click on the links given to see closer pictures of some of the better-displayed features. To see a mosaic that covers the whole of the eastern side of the Moon taken at the same time as the picture below, click here.
This is the eastern libration zone taken when the libration was particularly favourable. The large arrow points to the position of maximum libration. It is a mosaic of 9 images made when the Moon was 6.6 days old.
The picture here has been reduced to 21% of the size of the original.
Libration
Longitude +7° 22', latitude 2° 56'
Solar inclination
1.4°
Lunar Phase
99.2°
Colongitude
343.4°
Date and Time
9th June 2008 from 19:41 to 20:12 UT
Camera
Atik 1HS
Telescope
LX200 at prime focus
Capture
K3CCDTools. low gamma, 1/250", 33% gain, ~310 frames each
Processing
Registax. Most frames stacked. Histogram stretched as necessary for each image, wavelets 1-2=10
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