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Dynamics of an LROC oblique observation, this one of Mons Hansteen, aka "Hansteen α," a familiar nearside landmark, marking the southern Oceanus Procellarum and targeted for one on the LRO mission's more dramatic LROC Narrow Angle Camera oblique observations. Normally trained on the its nadir, directly below it's orbital path, occasionally spacecraft resources are devoted to a roll maneuver to enable the high resolution NAC cameras to capture a considerably wider field of view, in this instance a lunar feature that is the subject of intense scientific interest. The observation illustrated here, and assembled elsewhere, was LROC NAC mosaic M1154506530L & R, from LRO orbit 22107, May 12, 2014; spacecraft and camera were slewed 57.2° west of nadir providing for a resolution averaging 2.3 meters per pixel, from 96.38 km over 12.93°S, 315.41°E NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].