Greeting everybody,
Forgive my title which is quite self speaking about the neverending cloudy sky I’m experiencing here!
Let’s go ahead.

Cirrus there in the western shore of Procellarum should own to Olbers crater ejecta showned a couple of days ago. It’s too bad the 2 images couldn’t be composed together!
To be also noticed the Krafft catena “linking” craters Krafft (above) to Cardanus (bottom, partially visible).
The nice crater on the top-right corner is Seleucus while on its left we can see the big and half flooded Eddington crater.

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Hi all,
Back to a lunar area portrayed with an unfamiliar illumination.
Here we can see the far western side of our satellite with Reiner gamma (on the right), Cavalerius (on the bottom-center) and Olbers (on the left) whose nice ejecta will be better visible along my next image with the northern part of the Oceanum Procellarium.

Notice that weird white river flowing out Reiner Gamma and crossing Marius Hills on the top-right corner of the image.
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Hello,

Today’s image is showing a very nice area despite its very ugly name: Marsh of Pestilence!
Geologists would go further and pay attention to the several treasures here displayed as the nice concentric crater Marth dead center in the marsh, the dome rising in Capuanus crater very close to the shadow line, Ramsden rille system, those 3 dotted segments running on the left side of Elger crater and (best visibile in the stretched view), the radial structure on the left side of Cichus crater filled with shadow and the megadome on the right side of Mercator crater with Kies Pi dome a while above it.

PALUS EPIDEMIARUM

Hope this image could be of nice interest.
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Hi all,
On the following morning, I had another early wake up and another nice walk on the Moon!
Find here the Sinus Iridum once again with a lower sun angle which is putting on more evidence those lava flows similar to sea waves breaking into the Rainbow inlet.

SINUS IRIDUM

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Hello lunatics,
The Aug. 14 lunar session is coming to the end and I saved the best shot (whose I’m proud of) as the last one!
As rarely happens, I’m completely satisfied with this photo whose sharpness, sun angle and light balance are all OK to my eyes for a change!
I consider it as one of my best ever lunar pics, hope you can enjoy with it as well!

SINUS IRIDUM

I couldn’t resist to image more and more the same area also on the following night and later on September with a waxing Moon still low in the sky!
And the good seeing never missed…who knows why…
Thank you for your attention!

Hi all,
We’re now looking at the well known Copernicus region also including Carpatus mons.

CARPATUS-COPERNICUS-STADIUS

Beyond the nice moonscape we all know, I’d like to draw your attention to some very elusive rilles which are extremely hard to pick from ground based telescopes.
Those are the Draper rille which is barely visible here on the top-left corner as an U shaped line tilted by 45 degs and another (for me) unknown rille whose a small portion is visible in the extreme top-right corner of the image.
I could just find a couple of images of the Draper rille, none of the two was taken from Earth:

LUNAR ORBITER

APOLLO 17 (left side only)

These 2 images from space are quite self-speaking about this tiny rille snaking close to the Carpatus!
And if someone is knowing the other rille, please tell me its name!

Thank you in advance and…More to follow.

Hi all,
Today’s lunar course is taking our view over the amazing Framauro region despite the rising sun disturbing a lot the scene.
This should be likely the moonscape observed by Apollo 14 crew on Feb. 5, 1971 before of landing a while north of that crater.

FRAMAURO AND NEIGHBOURS

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Hello again,
Yet another image out of Aug. 14 session with the Hesiodus rille walking across Palus Epidemiarum ending to the sunfalling Pitatus crater.

RIMA HESIODUS

More to follow.
(Hope you could resist for a long time yet!)

Hello everybody,
Yet another nice session taken on last August, day 14.
Looking at the lunar south-western sector you can’t resist to take a picture with that nice family: Schiller (on the left), Longomontanus (on the bottom-right corner) and Wilhelm (on the top-right corner).

SCHILLER - LONGOMONTANUS - WILHELM

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Greetings to everybody,
Last lunar image taken on Aug. 12, 2009 which nicely portraits a very familiar crater formation: Stofler (middle-top on the image), Licetus (bottom-left corner) and Maurolycus (on the limb) completely filled with shadow.

STOFLER-HERACLITUS-LICETUS - AUG. 12, 2009

Playing with the histogram, I was courious enough to look more in depth into Maurolycus crater and I got a nice surprise indeed!
The ghost of the crater floor suddenly took its classical form as the Sun light was coming from the right!
In a short, a waxing crater inside a waning Moon! Amazing!

MAUROLYCUS GHOST

The image on the right (Jan. 17, 2005) is showing the typical Maurolycus floor, the enhanced image on the left is basically showing the same reliefs and the same depressions as the light is coming from the right!

I didn’t see something like this any time before, nor in any place on the web!
I’d dare to call it as “self moonshining” because the Moon is illuminating itself through a spreaded light coming from a crater rim.
Last, this image is for those are still believing to a tubeless telescope as home of spreaded light coming all around from a subject as wide as the Moon.That’s my answer.
Thank you for your attention.
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