Hello.
This is the final image closening my October 7, 2009 session and no more will follow from me! Still waiting for a decent session along 2010…
The south-eastern limb is surely dominated by magnificent Janssen crater and majestic Vallis Reitha, but you can also notice how many craters with huge differences in age are spreaded there in a very rough floor. I can literally see a whole generation!
This image might be looking too contrasty, but this is exactly the same view I could admire at the eyepiece.

That’s really all for now, I want to hope my images could have enjoyed yourselves and I could be back soon at work.
Thank you for your kind attention!

Hello.
Find here a wide panorama across the border which separates Tranquillitatis (containing Cauchy rilles) and Fecunditatis (Taruntius crater) maria.

I couldn’t find a name for the tiny rille you can see to the right of the evident rima Secchi and running almost parallel to rima Messier here visible on the very bottom side of the image.

Does anyone know it?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
More to follow.

Hello,
Find here another intriguing area by geological point of view that can be found in the southermost part of the mare Fecunditatis between Goclenius and Messier craters.
On the left side of the image, you can see the fractured ground typical of seas’ edges. On the right side, you can see a log stretched version of the shadowed sea bringing more in evidence all those smooth irregularities of the ground illuminated by an extremely low sun angle.

More to follow.

Hello,
In the heart of the night falled on October 7, 2009 I had my LAST chance to take some fine lunar images. From that night on, I had no more opportunities and 8 months are now gone…
During that nice session, I could grab the south-eastern sector starting from this image portraying a very rough ground not so far from south pole.

More to follow.

Hello everybody,
Sometime I’ve time enough to lurk in the darkest corners of my hard disk looking for some decent stuff to put my hands on.
And I’ve found a couple of well seasoned streams (Sept. 30, 2009!) grabbing the nice area with Mare Frigoris, Sinus Iridum and NW lunar limb.
I recall that night I suffered serious problems with my camera deliverying low framerate and low shades of grey, but seeing was okay despite the Moon was only 37 degs above the horizon.

More to follow (hope so…)

Hello,
Despite my tinner and thinner free time I’ve actually, I try to send my old lunar images nonetheless.
Today’s image’s showing the rough and highly fractured area west of Gassendi.

A noticeable result indeed given the low altitude and far distance of the Moon on that night.

The dark spot visible in the mare Humorum on the bottom-right corner is just a dust donut, not a new topographic detail!

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Hello,
After lonely mountains, find here the lonely crater Kepler.
To be honest, isn’t that lonely, but its huge appearance is such to take anything else into the background.
Please note on the far left the elusive rima Suess snaking into the darkness and the rima Milichius snaking at the opposite corner with some conspicuos dome visible despite the high sun angle.
On the bottom, find the rima Maestlin complex.

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Hello,
This image is displaying some lonely mountains dividing mare Imbrium (on the east side) from Oceanum Procellarium (on the west side).
Find Harbinger mons in the low-left corner, Delisle mons in the middle-right and the two Gruithuisen peaks on the top side.
The dark halo in the bottom-right corner is caused by dust.

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Hello,
Looking a bit westward, we can find our friend Schiller sitting on the top-right edge of a possible ancient multi-ring basin 2 times bigger than Schiller itself!
Who knows whether this is an illusion or not…

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Hello,
On Sept. 30 I had another lunar session under good to very good seeing at times and excellent transparency thanks to the 1200 meters elevation.
Sadly, that eve the Moon was quite low above the horizon (just 37 degs, close to Jupiter), quite far away from Earth (next to the apogee) and I also got a serious problem with the driver of my exp’l camera which caused some big problem with final resolution.
Find here a classical view of the South Pole from Clavius to Moretus under high sun angle.

More to follow.