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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% |
Mosaic western limb with Mare Orientale
Mosaics of bright ray pattern
Total Lunar Eclipse 28.9.2015
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images on this page were taken just a few hours before full Moon on September
28, 2015, short before the start of the total lunar eclipse in the early
morning. In difference to all other images of this atlas the images here were taken with the 6 inch Zeiss APQ refractor, using a 2x Astro Physics barlow lens at a focal lenght of 2.400mm. The seeing at this evening was not good enough for the long focal length of the Celestron C 14. The point of favourable libration was near the crater Schickardt, so we could take images of a few details of Mare Orientale. « The image to the left is a mosaic of 15 segments. Click here or the thumbnail to load a large image (3.600 x 3.600 pixel). The Image acquisition was starting at about 20:00 UTC, just five hour before the beginning of the. lunar eclipse. Click here to load an image of the full moon with all Apollo landing sites. Click here An extensive image archive of all Apollo missions can be found here. |
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Mosaic western limb with Mare
Orientale « The left image shows a mosaic of 5 segments of the western lunar limb with some details of the Mare Orientale. Mare Orientale (the eastern sea) is a so called multi ring basin with a diameter of 1.000 kilometer. The eastern wall of the basin is called Montes Cordilleres which can be clearly seen in our image. Only the South Pole Aitken basin (far side of the Moon) and Mare Imbrium are larger as the Mare Orientale. Montes Rock, located at the coordinates 20 degrees south and 86.5 degrees west, can be clearly seen against the black sky. These group of mountains rises up to 3.800 m above the floor of the Orientale basin. Click here on the thumbnail to load the large version of the mosaic. Interesting details are labelled in the image. |
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« « LRO general view of Mare Orientale. Click the thumbnail to
see a large version. « LRO detaild view of Mare Orientale. Structures marked in our mosaic are also labelled here. Click the thumbnail to see a large version. |
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Mosaics of prominent bright ray
pattern Copernicus and Kepler Aristarchus Tycho Petavius B Goldschmidt Byrgius A Proclus |
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The total lunar eclipse in the early morning
of 28. of September These eclipse was titled as a super blood lunar eclipse in the Namibian print media. Blood was standing for the expected reddish colour at totality and super was standing for the size of the moon because the distance to Earth was only 352.000 kilometer. Our images were captured in the prime focus of the Zeiss APQ refractor at a focal length of 1.200 mm with a modified Canon EOS 60 D. Click the thumbnail to see larger images. More images can be found at the "Special Projects". |
| « © 2015 Image by Mr. Peter Pack, taken a short time before the end of the eclipse. It shows the Moon above the horizon next to a mighty camel-thorn-tree. |
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