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<em>image by [mailto:slamm@blueyonder.co.uk Stefan Lammel ]</em><br />
 
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The south polar region of the Moon provides perhaps the most dramatic celestial landscape that can be observed through a telescope. Tall mountains that ring the South Pole-Aitken Basin jut up into the sky, and deep craters cast dark shadows across their floors. The compression of the landscape through foreshortening makes identification of features difficult, even on a fantastic image such as this. The Tycho-like crater at lower left is Schomberger and a [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20071221 previous] LPOD identifies other craters in the area. The massive mountain near the middle is Leibnitz Beta and to its left is the ill-formed Scott. Beyond Scott is a broad flat-floored crater with a tapering shaft of shadow - that is Amundsen, and the smaller bright crater beyond seems to be the farside feature Idelson L. To the right of L and on the limb a rim casts a narrow curved shadow for another flat-floored crater that has no designation according to Rükl map V. Coming in from the right side of this crater is a bright rim with the floor in shadow. This is Faustini, a possible target for the [http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/ LCROSS] collisional probe on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, [http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2009/02/the_lro_launch.html now] apparently to be launched in May, 2009. <br />
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The south polar region of the Moon provides perhaps the most dramatic celestial landscape that can be observed through a telescope. Tall mountains that ring the South Pole-Aitken Basin jut up into the sky, and deep craters cast dark shadows across their floors. The compression of the landscape through foreshortening makes identification of features difficult, even on a fantastic image such as this. The Tycho-like crater at lower left is Schomberger and a [[December_21,_2007|now]] apparently to be launched in May, 2009. <br />
 
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<em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br />
 
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<strong>Related Links</strong><br />
 
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Rükl plate [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Rukl+73 73]<br />
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Rükl plate [https://the-moon.us/wiki/Rükl_73 73]<br />
 
Stefan's entire [http://www.pbase.com/image/109091621/original mosaic]<br />
 
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<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[February 14, 2009|Happy Valentines Day]] </p>
 
<p><b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> [[February 14, 2009|Happy Valentines Day]] </p>
 
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Latest revision as of 20:39, 18 August 2018

Beyond the Polar Explorers

LPOD-Feb13-09.jpg
image by Stefan Lammel

The south polar region of the Moon provides perhaps the most dramatic celestial landscape that can be observed through a telescope. Tall mountains that ring the South Pole-Aitken Basin jut up into the sky, and deep craters cast dark shadows across their floors. The compression of the landscape through foreshortening makes identification of features difficult, even on a fantastic image such as this. The Tycho-like crater at lower left is Schomberger and a now apparently to be launched in May, 2009.

Chuck Wood

Technical Details
6-Jan-09 20:30UT. 10in f4.8 Newtonian, Infinity 2-1M, 5x PowerMate, green filter, Avistack, Registax, PSE 5, Focus Magic.

Related Links
Rükl plate 73
Stefan's entire mosaic

Yesterday's LPOD: Happy 200th, Darwin!

Tomorrow's LPOD: Happy Valentines Day



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