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| | <p>[[File:Rimae-Daniell-Higgins-LPOD.jpg|Rimae-Daniell-Higgins-LPOD.jpg]]<br /> | | <p>[[File:Rimae-Daniell-Higgins-LPOD.jpg|Rimae-Daniell-Higgins-LPOD.jpg]]<br /> |
| | <em>image by [mailto:starman2@allegiance.tv Wes Higgins]</em></p> | | <em>image by [mailto:starman2@allegiance.tv Wes Higgins]</em></p> |
| − | <p>This is too easy. This is the best image of this area in existence*. The Lunar Orbiter IV frames have too high of Sun and indifferent resolution, and there are no Apollo views of this piece of the Moon. Actually, the previous very best image is K.C. Pau’s remarkable [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20070111 shot] with his 10″ telescope - the mantle of success is passed from amateur to amateur! And where is this area? A tip of the crater Daniell is at bottom right, and Mason and Plana are deeply shadowed at top right. The rille-shredded Lacus Somniorum is middle-right, and a piece of Mare Serenitatis fills the lower-left, with Luther pitting bottom-center. Identifying landmarks is a way to fill space when there is nothing to say, and that is partly true here, because Wes’ image leaves me speechless. But there is such wonderful detail to be noticed, most impressively the shadow being cast by the Daniell Rille, which (as I said for K.C.’s image) means that there may be a component of vertical faulting. There is an offset of the rille at its southeast end where a slight shadow is cast by the isolated hill, and closer to Daniell a ridge shadow continues the trend. At the other end there is a very delicate rille which may have been unknown until now. Just north of the 9.3 km wide crater Plana G (the flat-floored one with a pit and a shadow) is a narrow rille trending in the same direction as the Daniell Rille. This new rille is about 85 km long and 900 m wide, at its widest. Two other sets of rilles demand our attention, too. Three or more rilles are embedded in the unnamed peninsula of Imbrium ejecta coming in from top-left. They have a slighly different orientation from the Daniell Rille and may have a completely different origin. Finally, the [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20070208 southernmost part] of the peninsula is cut by a complex series of linear and sharply curved rilles, which don’t look like rilles elsewhere on the Moon.</p> | + | <p>This is too easy. This is the best image of this area in existence*. The Lunar Orbiter IV frames have too high of Sun and indifferent resolution, and there are no Apollo views of this piece of the Moon. Actually, the previous very best image is K.C. Pau’s remarkable [[January_11,_2007|shot]] with his 10″ telescope - the mantle of success is passed from amateur to amateur! And where is this area? A tip of the crater Daniell is at bottom right, and Mason and Plana are deeply shadowed at top right. The rille-shredded Lacus Somniorum is middle-right, and a piece of Mare Serenitatis fills the lower-left, with Luther pitting bottom-center. Identifying landmarks is a way to fill space when there is nothing to say, and that is partly true here, because Wes’ image leaves me speechless. But there is such wonderful detail to be noticed, most impressively the shadow being cast by the Daniell Rille, which (as I said for K.C.’s image) means that there may be a component of vertical faulting. There is an offset of the rille at its southeast end where a slight shadow is cast by the isolated hill, and closer to Daniell a ridge shadow continues the trend. At the other end there is a very delicate rille which may have been unknown until now. Just north of the 9.3 km wide crater Plana G (the flat-floored one with a pit and a shadow) is a narrow rille trending in the same direction as the Daniell Rille. This new rille is about 85 km long and 900 m wide, at its widest. Two other sets of rilles demand our attention, too. Three or more rilles are embedded in the unnamed peninsula of Imbrium ejecta coming in from top-left. They have a slighly different orientation from the Daniell Rille and may have a completely different origin. Finally, the [[February_8,_2007|southernmost part]] of the peninsula is cut by a complex series of linear and sharply curved rilles, which don’t look like rilles elsewhere on the Moon.</p> |
| | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> | | <p>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</p> |
| − | <p>* not counting whatever may be hidden away in SMART-!’s vault.</p> | + | <p>* not counting whatever may be hidden away in SMART-1’s vault.</p> |
| | <p><strong>Technical Details:</strong><br /> | | <p><strong>Technical Details:</strong><br /> |
| − | August 3, 2007, 10:37 UT. 18″ Reflector, Infinity 2-1m camera, MAP processing (38 points) stack of 500 frames. This is an excerpt of a larger image, visible on [[Rimae-Daniell-1-2-3-4-08-03-07.jpg|Wes’ website]]</p> | + | August 3, 2007, 10:37 UT. 18″ Reflector, Infinity 2-1m camera, MAP processing (38 points) stack of 500 frames. This is an excerpt of a larger image, visible on [http://higginsandsons.com/astro/images/Rimae-Daniell-1-2-3-4-08-03-07.jpg Wes’ website]</p> |
| | <p><strong>Related Links:</strong><br /> | | <p><strong>Related Links:</strong><br /> |
| | Rükl plate 14</p> | | Rükl plate 14</p> |
| | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[September 11, 2007|Eating a Smaller Fry]] </p> | | <p><b>Yesterday's LPOD:</b> [[September 11, 2007|Eating a Smaller Fry]] </p> |
| | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[September 13, 2007|Be Gone, Obnoxious Framelet Lines!]] </p> | | <p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[September 13, 2007|Be Gone, Obnoxious Framelet Lines!]] </p> |
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