CHAMÄLEON + ONJALA OBSERVATORY  LUNAR ATLAS - II
Mare - Craters - Rilles - Faults - Mountains
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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%
10.5d
75%
11.5d
84%
12.1d
87%
12.5d
92%
13.1d
95%
14.5d
100%

Moon age 12.1 days – Illumination 87 % - 26.08.2015

Image number and crater list
Mosaics
Interesting image details
Special Images
  New mages 2016  
 
 
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 Agatharchides, Gassendi FF-crater Gassendi, Megadome and Rima Agatharchides
02 Aristarch Plateau Sinuous rille Vallis Schröter, Rimae Prinz
03 Aristarch southern part lunar dome Herodotus
04 Clavius, Biancanus and Scheiner -
05 Deslisle, Prinz and Gruithuisen Rimae Prinz and Rima Deslisle
06 Doppelmayer, Mare Humorum unusual form of the central mountain Doppelmayer
07 Doppelmayer, Vitello and Palmieri Rupes and Rima Liebig, Rimae Palmieri
08 Gassendi and Mersenius Rima Mersenius
09 Gassendi, Crüger Rima Herigonius
10 Gruithuisen lunar Domes Gruithuisen Gamma and Delta, Rima Mairan
11 Heinzel and Mee unusual crater form Heinzel (the peanut crater)
12 Herschel (John) and Happalus -
13 Kepler and Encke polygonal crater forms  
14 Lacus Excellentiae -  
15 Letronne, Crüger and Hansteen -  
16 Letronne and Wichmann -  
17 Marius Hills largest lunar dome field, sinuous rille Rima Marius  
18 Marius Hills largest lunar dome field, sinuous rille Rima Marius  
19 Mersenius and Liebig Rima Mersenius, Rima and Rupes Liebig, lunar dome Liebig 1  
20 Moretus, Newton and Casatus -  
21 Reiner and Maestlin Rima Maestlin, Reiner at sunrise  
22 Schickard sunrise  
23 Schiller unusual crater form  
24 Sinus Iridum, Helicon and Le Verrier -  

 
Mosaics

Aristarch plateau
Gassendi and Mersenius
Gruithuisen to Prinz

 
Interesting image details

Image 010 - shows the both volcanic domes Gruithuisen Gamma and -Delta in the middle of the image
Image 013 - shows the polygonal crater Kepler and its ray system
NEW 2016 Image 0001 - shows 3 small Dark Halo Crater near Copernikus at a Moon age 12.3 days

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

The image to the left shows three different illumination phases of the Floor Fractured crater Gassendi

Moon age from left to right: 11.5, 12.1 and 13.1 days

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« NEW 2016 Special ImagesMoon age 12.3 days

The image shows the large crater Schickardt on the southwestern edge of the moon at sunrise with spectacular shadows of the eastern crater walls (extreme image processing)

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