November 22, 2010
Ridged
image by " rel="nofollow André Gabriël, Belgium
Quick, where is this? The elongated craters and darkness of space place this image near the limb, but that goes 360° around the Moon. The falloff of the limb to the left suggests the northern hemisphere, but the image could have south up (or some direction in between N and S), or it could even be flipped as if looking through a Schmidt-Cassegrain with an added prism to get the eyepiece in a comfortable position. We are forced to use the terrain and features shown to identify this region. There are a few small and bright walled craters and not many identifiable older ones. Do you see the long elevated ridges, with shadows between? This must be ....
" rel="nofollow Chuck Wood
47 years ago today President John F. Kennedy was assassinated - I remember it well.
Technical Details
10 inch F20 refractor, a DMK31 camera was used and the image was processed in Registax.
This text was used for an earlier LPOD with a different image, but it works just as well with this one!
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