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3.3d
12%
4.5d
17%
5.1d
22%
5.5d
25%
6.1d
30%
7.1d
39%
7.5d
44%
8.5d
54%
9.6d
65%
10.6d
76%
11.5d
84%
12.1d
87%
12.5d
92%
13.1d
95%
14.5d
100%

Moon age 10.6 days – Illumination 76 % - 23.09.2015

Image number and crater list
Mosaics

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Interesting image details
Special Images
  New mages 2016  
 
Contrary to all other images of this website, these images were not recorded with the Celestron C14 but with a 17" PlaneWave astrograph at a focal length of 2.950 mm (at f / 6.8 ) - exept the special image at the bottom of this page.
 
 
Image Number Craters - in alphabetical order Special details

download pdf-file with descriptions of exceptional or unique lunar structures at this moon age
LUNAR 100
   
01 Bullialdus, Kies and Wolf lunar dome Kies Phi
02 Capuanus, Kies and Mercator concentric double crater Hesiodus A, Rima Hesidonius and Rimae Hippalus
03 Clavius, Blancanus, Scheiner and Longomontanus -
04 Copernicus and Tobias Mayer lunar dome field
05 Euler and Lambert -
06 Landsberg -
07 Longomontanus, Heizel und Mee Heinzel and Mee at sunrise
08 Lubinietzky and Darney lunar kipuka Darney Chi
09 Lubinietzky and Agatharchides Rima and Megadomeplateau Agartharchides
10 Mons Riphaeus -
11 Reinhold and Landsberg -
12 Sinus Iridum, Malapert -
13 Stadius, Copernicus and Erathostenes secundary craters of Copernicus impact  
14 Stöffler, Huggins ray system of Tycho impacts  

 
Mosaics

Wurzelbauer to Lubinietzky
Erathostenes to Landsberg
Moretus toHeinzel
Rimae Hippalus
Herschel to Werner - Overview of the Imbrium Sculpture
Copernicus to Bullialdus
Bullialdus in the center with labels
Copernicus in the center with labels
Fauth to Lubinietzky
Montes Riphaeus and Darney Chi (lunar Kipuka)

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Interesting image details

Image 005 - shows in the left part the crater Lambert and direct above - hardly to see - the ghost crater Lambert R.
Image 014 - shows the region around the complex crater Stöffler. The whole region is covered by ejecta of the Tycho impact.

Detailed descriptions of other exceptional or unique structures at this moon age you can find in this pdf-file
 
Special Images NEW 2016

The compilation of the left shows the sunrise over the crater Moretus and Newton near the south pole of the moon during a Moon age of 8.5- 9.5- and 10.5 days, taken at good libration conditions.

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