June 21, 2013

Harbinger Highlights

image by " rel="nofollow Jocelyn Serot, France

This is definitely not the good season for imaging the Moon. It's too low on the horizon both on first and last quarter. Yet, yesterday evening, I couldn't resist fitting the camera behind my small 6" Mak to take this image, despite a very bad seeing. All the mounds, mountains and domes emerging from the smooth surface of western Procelarum were just catching the eye. I think there is a lot to tell about the similarities and differences between all that are visible here : the Gruithuisen domes, the V-shaped and Baby-shaped mountains west of Delisle, the Harbinger Mountains and Mons La Hire. There's also an arc south of Prinz : curved ridge trace of a large buried crater ?

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Technical Details
2013-06-19, 21h20 UT. 6" Intes Mak-Cass @ prime focus, IR>685 filter, Basler 1300 camera. Processing Autostakkert (300/3000) + Registax 6.

Related Links
Rükl plate 19
21st Century Atlas chart 21.
Jocelyn's " rel="nofollow website

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