For interesting information on heights of features near the Apollo 15 landing
site see Sky and Telescope November 1998 p 114.
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| General area of Hadley Rille. Hadley crater is at 2.9°W and 25.4°N |
At 7d5h40m past new moon Hadley crater is still in shadow.
10" Newtonian/18mm Orthoscopic. |
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| General view of the region using 10"
Newtonian and 28mm RKE eyepiece. In the close up Hadley crater is just
emerging into the sunshine. This is 7d11h20m after new moon. |
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| At 20:32GMT on 3/3/01 the moon is 8d12h10m past new. In
this LX200 view with the digital camcorder 6km Hadley crater is very
sharp. It is 1120m deep. |
At 20:32 on 24/4/99 the moon is 8d16h10m past new in this
composite Newtonian view. I tried Richardson Lucy deconvolution on this
image. Hadley crater is tiny seen from
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At 20:00 on 11/02/03 the moon was 10d9h old.
This image (at left) is clearly the best I have obtained to date. I used
a Philips ToUCamPro with the LX200 at f20 using a x2 Barlow. I
manually selected about 100 frames from about 300 and then
combined them in Registax. |
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| A low resolution orbital view from Apollo 15. The landing
site is indicated by A and Hadley mountain by H |
Astronaut James Irwin with Hadley mountain in the background.
Hadley mountain towers 4200m above the plane. |
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| March 19th 2005 with the moon 9d12h old at around 21:00. A
stack of images processed with Registax 3. This is even better
resolution than the 11/02/03 image above. Images obtained at f20 and
resampled x2. See here for a reference
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