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…
More to follow.
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.
Hello,
Find here my last image taken on August.
Mediocre seeing, expecially with the bottom frame.
Mare Humorum with a favourable libration:
More to follow with another interesting early fall lunar collection.
Thank you for your attention so far.
Hello,
Yet another image out of August 2009!
An usual and classic vista on the Aristarchus plateau.
More to follow.
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.
More to follow.
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.
More to follow.
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.
Hope this image could be of nice interest.
More to follow.
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.
More to follow.
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!
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.
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:
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.
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