June 11, 2009
Peaking Over the Limb
image by Mikhail Abgarian, Yuri Goryachko & Konstantin Morozov, Minsk, Belarus
Last week, LPOD featured a closeup view of the Humboldtianum Basin taken on May 29, 2009. The Minsk Miracle Imagers captured the same limb area two nights later when the libration was better. Their startling discovery is of a massive peak on the horizon. Yuri proposes that the mountain is the central peak of the farside crater Compton, and he estimates that the peak rises at least 2 km above the lunar horizon. I think Yuri's identification is correct because there is nothing else at that orientation beyond Humboldtianum, and the Minsk profile view matches the Clementine spacecraft plan Chuck Wood
Technical Details
May 31, 2009 15:46UT. Maksutov-Cassegrain Santel D=230mm F=3000mm, barlow 1.9x + Astronomik Red filter + Unibrain Fire-i 702 CCD b/w camera (IEEE-1394, 1388x1040), Processing in Avistack and Maxim DL; Postprocessing in Photoshop. Seeing 7-8/10, Trans 5/5.
Related Links
Rükl plate 7
NOTE - Visit the special LPOD Kaguya Impact page from yesterday afternoon!
COMMENTS?
Click on this icon File:PostIcon.jpg at the upper right to post a comment.
