April 21, 2010
Every One a Winner
image by Ricardo Tolentino, Vaz Tolentino Balcony Observatory, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
They say that clothes make the man. For lunar images, it's lighting. As soon as I saw Ricardo's image I wondered what the crater was just to the right of Manilius in the center of the frame. It is a little smaller and covered with something, presumably basin ejecta from Imbrium. It is completely invisible on some Chuck Wood
Technical Details
02/05/2010, 04h26m Local Time. SkyWatcher 12" DOB + ORION StarShoot Solar System Color Imager II + Celestron Ultima 2 X Barlow, just one frame; (Lat: 19o 55' 40.6" / Long: 043o 55' 04.2").
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