LUNAR 100 - please contribute your best images!

Observers of the starry sky are guided by the Messier list - a wonderful collection of some of the best nebulae and galaxies in the sky. Last year I decided that lunar observers would benefit from a similar list, although I wasn't concerned with just the biggest and the best, but also with landforms that illustrate how the Moon was formed and modified over the last 4.5 billion years. Sky & Telescope published my Lunar 100 list and article in the April 2004 issue and since then each of my monthly articles has described a couple of the L100 objects.

One of my goals is to illustrate the monthly articles (and a future book) with the best possible amateur images of the L100 objects. But for me to use your images I have to know they exist. In this part of Chuck Wood's Moon I'd like to display one or two of the best images submitted of each of the L100 objects. Please submit your images to me as a jpg file whose title is the L number and your name. So if I were to send an image of Tycho it would be L6-Wood.jpg - and that would also be the subject line of the email! Click the thumbnail to see a larger image.