Moon 2

 

All images taken at 19:30 on 14/02/97 with the 10" Newtonian and Panasonic Video Camera

Lunar North is to the left and East upward. Notes are taken from Moon Mars and Venus by Antonin Rukl (1976 edition ).  This book contains an excellent hand drawn map of the moon. I think the map is still published. 

 

Hipparchus to the left is a 150km walled plain with 30km Horrocks prominent inside it  The prominent crater to the right is 46km Agrippa with a 3070m central peak. The rille above it is Aridaeus. This rille is 220km long, 4 to 5km wide and 0.8km deep. Hyginus Rille, is to the lower left with 9km Hyginus crater where the rille bends. See also S&T November 1999 p126.
The North pole region. Aristotle (to the right) is a 95km crater with terraced walls  The intermediate area between Hipparchus and Hyginus rille 
Lunar Mare were formed by the flooding of low lying area with lava. Here the edge of the lava from one such flood event casts a shadow on the border between Mare Serenitatis to the east and Mare Imbrium to the west. Craters Aristillus and Autolycus are just coming into sunlight 
 

 

 

 

 

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