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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Hello everybody,
After a long spell with high sun lunar images, you can look now at some area close to the limb.
In this scene you can see the Appennines and the mons Haemus promontorium leading southward on the bottom-right corner of the frame.

APPENNINES AND MONS HAEMUS

The image was a bit log-stretched with highlights to put on more evidence the dark mons Haemus against the bright peaks of the Appennines.
Hope you liked it.
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Hello everybody,
Today’s image is showing the Aristarchus Plateau.
The high sun angle is better revealing crater blankets, radial ejectas and small impact craters everywhere probably caused by the Aristarchus itself when forming.
This area is definitively interesting and nice to see regardless of the illumination.

ARISTARCUS PLATEAU

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Hello everybody,
I’m now sending lunar images taken on late 2009.
Yet another remarkable libration helped me to catch the elusive mare Orientale at its best.
For the first time, I could even pick the farside Cordillera staying behind the mare itself!
I got this panorama by sticking 3 images:

MARE ORIENTALE

To be also noticed a sort of courious “dipole” with the bright crater Byrgius A on the bottom-left corner against the dark Grimaldi basin on the bottom-right corner. in the middle, the neverending Sirsalis rille.

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Thank you for your kind attention.

Hello everybody,
Last image of my 2008 backlog.
This was also the only one I could capture on that September night before of the clouds rolling in definitively.
We can see here another rarely imaged area placed half way between well known craters Fracastorius (to the west) and Petavius (to the east).
Santbech crater is the prominent crater on the middle-top side of the image.
SANTBECH

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Thank you for your attention.

Hi all,

It’s been a looong while since my last lunar image sending.
So much, that I’ve a backlog of images as old as 1 year and half!

The local weather here is the worst ever with 100+ days (and still counting…) gone with exceptionally poor conditions. Just incredible.

Fortunately (if I can use this term), I had time enough to process some very old images captured on Summer 2008 and never processed yet.

These 2 shots dated June 10, 2008 are showing 2 maris which seldom appear this favourable because placed close to the lunar limb.
A very favourable western libration (7.5 degs) delivered a nice view of:

MARE HUMBOLDTIANUM

MARE MARGINIS

Both the 2 images were hard enough to process given the very high sun angle causing a very little contrast on the lunar ground.

Hope you can enjoy them all nonetheless.

More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.

Hi all,
Find here another image taken on Aug. 22, 2008 as my previous south pole image.
Here’s displayed the south-eastern limb.

SOUTH-EASTERN LIMB - AUG. 22, 2008

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Hi all,
After ages since my last lunar image sending, I take the advantage of restarting from a special one grabbed last year (!) showing the Cabeus area which will be tomorrow on the scene thanks to the LCROSS mission which scheduled that area for their probe crashing.
You can see Cabeus filled with shadow in the top-center side of my image, very close to the limb.

On that far night (Aug. 22, 2008) I had a quite favourable libration but poor seeing with some nice momenth though.

SOUTH POLE - AUG. 22, 2008

Let’s europeans sit down and look what NASA will get back from the impact.