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ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
3000 frames captured in FireCapture
Best 30% stacked in Autostakkert!
AI sharpened in BlurXTerminator.
Finished in Photoshop
A supermoon occurs when the full Moon is near perigee, its closest point to Earth, so it appears a little larger and brighter than usual. At the extreme it can look about 14 percent larger and up to around 30 percent brighter than a full Moon at its greatest distance. The term supermoon is not a strict scientific label, and without a side-by-side comparison the difference is often hard to see with the naked eye. The stronger gravitational pull slightly amplifies the so-called spring tides, periods of especially pronounced tides when high tides are higher and low tides are lower because the Sun, Earth, and Moon are nearly aligned and their forces combine. This happens around full Moon and new Moon, and the extra boost from a supermoon is only small.
The dark patches on the lunar disk are the maria, broad lava plains of iron-rich basalt that reflect less light than the bright highlands made of anorthositic rock. Several prominent examples are easy to identify, the wide Mare Imbrium, the expansive Oceanus Procellarum beside it, the round basins Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquillitatis, and the isolated Mare Crisium near the edge. Very striking is the bright crater Tycho with its ray system that sends fine light streaks across much of the southern hemisphere, and another ray-rich landmark is Copernicus a little north of the center.
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-2 video camera, a Takahashi Mewlon 250 telescope on a Software Bisque PME mount.
Dedication
This one is for Toby!
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-2 high speed camera and 16-cm Astrophysics Apochromatic Refractor at F/32 on a software bisque PME mount.
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Other images from this series:
1. www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51171518803/
C8 @ 2000 mm
QHY5II-L monochromatic
Ir Pass Filter Baader Planetarium
best 25% of 60sec .ser movie
Ez Planetary
Autostakkert! 2
Astra Image (LR and ME deconvolution)
Vixen Super Polaris (not polar aligned)
From the balcony of my home in Taranto, bad seeing, variable trasparecny.
May 10, 2022
Tonight we were blessed with two hours of very good seeing conditions during my "prime time", so I was able to set up the larger telescope for some imaging of lunar details.
This is a close-up of Promontorium Laplace, the northern of the two "capes" that define the entrance to Sinus Iridum (the "Bay of Rainbows" from Mare Imbrium (the "Sea of Rains"). Here the tall cliffs of the Jura Mountains rise high above the lava plains to catch morning light. Notice the long sharp shadows cast by the 2600 meter high peak of the promontorium.
The main mass of the Jura Mountains extend across the frame just above center. These mountains are part of several mountain ranges that form the outer ring ridges that encircle the Moon's huge Imbrium Basin. The interior of the basin is filled with vast lava plains; a relatively small part of these plains fills the lower half of the photo. The plains appear smooth from our Earthly vantage, but this close-up shows the plains to be dotted by craters of all sizes. The pair of larger craters near the bottom center are Helicon (left - 25 km wide) and Le Verrier (right - 20 km wide). Le Verrier is surrounded by rougher-appearing terrain, probably ejecta from the crater itself. The smooth plains are also marked with long wavelike features, known as dorsae or wrinkle ridges. These low ridges show most impressively when illuminated by grazing sunlight.
Some isolated peaks rise above the lava plains of Mare Imbrium just interior to the ridges of the Jura Mountains. There are the long linear ridge of the Montes Recti and a cluster of isolated peaks known as the Montes Teneriffe. These mountains, together with others outside the frame of this photo are the remnants of an inner ring around the Imbrium Basin. Lower peaks of this ring were buried under the rising lava of Mare Imbrium.
Above the Jura Mountains another elongated stretch of lava plains spans the photo. This is Mare Frigoris (the "Sea of Cold"), the northernmost of the Moons great maria. It has many features similar to those of Mare Imbrium: a peppering of small craters, isolated peaks, and wrinkle ridges. Unlike most of the Moon's great maria, which were created by colossal asteroid impacts and subsequent upwelling lava, Mare Frigoris seems to have been created by a gigantic fissuring event that split the Moon's crust and allowed enormous curtain-like lava fountains to erupt across the moon's surface for thousands of kilometers. Similar eruptions on Earth are building Iceland, the volcano chains of Africa's Great Rift, and the mid-ocean ridges.
Above Mare Frigoris are the Moon's northern highlands, a jumble of craters of all ages, piled one on top of another.
The best 25% of 5,738 video frames were used to create this photo.
Stacking was done with Auto Stakkert!3. Wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Final toning with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2022.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Notable for being the first Full Moon as well as the first Super Moon of 2026!
Stacked frames taken by Nikon D850 DSLR, Nikon lens AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
© George Voudouris. All Rights Reserved. No usage allowed including copying or sharing without written permission.
This image holds up to pixel peeking, so dive rght in and have a look around.
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
5000 frames captured with FireCapture
Best 1250 frames stacked with Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened with Registax
Four-panel mosiac stitched together with Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Noise reduction with Topaz DeNoise AI
Finished in Photoshop
Rukl 9-12 and 19-22.
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I crateri Platone e Archimede, visibili in questa immagine, marcano il bordo del vasto Mare delle Piogge, distese che ricordano antichi mari di lava. In basso, i monti Appennini si stagliano come una catena possente, mentre la valle delle Alpi si snoda fra le montagne, un profondo solco scolpito da eventi cataclismatici del passato. Queste cicatrici sono oggi simboli di una bellezza ancestrale, testimoni immutabili della storia lunare. È lo stesso satellite che affascinava gli antichi sapienti, per i quali era simbolo di mistero e conoscenza celeste, e ancora oggi ci ispira con la sua incrollabile presenza e il suo fascino eterno.
Foto di stasera, telescopio Mak 127/1500mm con Canon EOS 800D e lente di Barlow 2x
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December 05 2019 Crater Plato (center-left) - Moon Dec 05, 2019 #moon #astronomy #moonphotography #luna #lunaphotography #astrophotography #laluna #nikonp1000 #blogto #toronto #torontosky #canada #astro_photography_ #bluemoon #seaoftranquility #seaofserenity #halfmoon #crateraristoteles #moonphases #moonlovers #moonwatch #craterplato #montesalps #mareimbrium #montesjura #sinusiridium #arstillus #autolycus #archimedes #eudoxus
Mare Imbrium is the flatter, darker terrain that dominates the bottom two thirds of this image. Inside of the northern shoreline are, from left to right, Montes Recti, Montes Teneriffe, Mons Pico and and Mons Piton rise out of the surface. Just north of there a crescent of lunar highland arch from one side of the image to the other. The most prominent features is this region, from left to right, are Sinus Iridum, (Bay of Rainbows), Crater Plato, and Vallis Alpes bisects the Montes Alpes. The western end of Mare Frigoris arches across the upper edge of the image. (Rükl 2-4, and 10-12)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture at 4.25ms at 144 gain and 55% histogram
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop - colors are slightly saturated.
August 18, 2021
The crater pair of Copernicus (center bottom) and Eratosthenes (center right) become prominent in the Moon's middle latitudes in the days following the First Quarter Moon. Here they are seen in high angle light, their floors fully or nearly fully illuminated. There is enough shadow for the multitude of secondary craterlets surrounding them to be detected. These can be seen to radiate deeply into Mare Imbrium, the broad lava plain that fills the upper third of the image.
Separating Copernicus and Mare Imbrium are the peaks of the Montes Carpatus. These mountains are remnants of the high rim of the Imbrium Impact Basin.
On the bottom left edge of the photo lies a small cup-shaped crater named Hortensius. Just above this small crater a cluster of small bumps can be seen. These low mounds are lunar volcanoes, the Hortensius Domes. Look closely and the summit calderas of some can be seen. These humble mounds are the lunar equivalent of the large shield volcanoes (e.g., Mauna Loa) seen on the Earth.
This photo is a stack of the best 30% of 5369 video frames.
Video capture software: FireCapture
Stacking software: AutoStakkert! 3
Wavelets-processing: Registax 6
Final buff: Photoshop CC 2021.
Celestron EdgeHD8, 2032mm focal length, f/10
ZWO ASI 290MM planetary camera
Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial Mount
Montes Carpatus extends from left center to just north of the prominent Crater Copernicus, After a short gap, Montes Apenninus extends from center image toward the upper right corner. Crater Eratosthenes anchors this range near the center of the image. The two ranges separate Mare Imbrium (upper image) from Mare Insularium (lower image) Copernicus' eastern and southern ejecta fields are also featured in this image. (Rükl 20-22)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture at 4.25ms at 144 gain and 55% histogram
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop - colors are slightly saturated.
June 17, 2021
Please forgive the odd orientation of this photo. It was taken while I was setting up the telescope and obtaining focus, before I fussed with orientation. Clouds were threatening, and I wanted to get at least one shot before they shut me down.
The terrain of and surrounding the Montes Haemus fascinates me. The high peaks on the left are the Montes Apenninus; they mark the outer rim of the huge Imbrium impact basin (everything on the far left). The Montes Haemus are the scoured-looking hills and valleys extending towards the right from the Montes Apenninus. This terrain was scarred at the time of the Imbrium impact by the cataclysmic high-velocity wave of incandescent rock and vapor that was ejected by the impact.
Below the Montes Haemus is the bird-in-flight shaped Rima Hyginus. To the right of Rima Hyginus is the linear Rima Ariadaeus, and below Rima Hyginus is the network of the Rimae Triesnecker.
Between Rima Hyginus and the Montes Apenninus is the basalt plain of Mare Vaporum.
Immediately above Rima Hyginus is a dark region of hills, the Mare Vaporum pyroclastic deposits. Volcanic processes in this area covered the terrain with pyroclastic materials that darkened it relative to the surrounding area.
Best 30% of 1709 frames.
Celestron Edge HD8
ZWO ASI 290MM
No filter
Crater Plato dominates the upper right quadrant of this image. Its "flooded" floor appears to be of similar material to that of Mare Imbrimum, which lies to the crater's south. Valles Alpes, a rift valley can be seen horizontally biscecting the more rugged terrain to the southeast. (A. Ruki 3, 4)
ZWO ASI178MC/2.5x PowerMate
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy LX850
4000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 240 frames stacked in Autostakkert
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finished in Photoshop
Montes Apenninus and Caucasus are the mountain ranges that bow downward across the image center, separating Mare Imbrium (upper half) from Mare Serenitatis (lower half). At the right of center, Crater Eratosthenes anchors the beginning of the Apenninus range, which occupies the first two thirds of the bow. After a brief interruption where Imbrium and Serenitatis connect, Caucasus continues. The trio of prominent craters near image center, from largest to smallest, are Archimedes, Aristillus, and Autolycus. And finally, Vallis Alpes and the southern end of Montes Alpes can be seen in the upper right corner. (Rükl 12, 13, 22 and 23)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
2000 frames captured in Firecapture at 4.25ms at 144 gain and 55% histogram
Best 75% stacked in Autostakkert!
Wavelet sharpened in Registax
Finishing in Photoshop - colors are slightly saturated.
The sky was reasonably clear last night/early morning, so I pulled another all-nighter. Got some decent shots of our moon ... and a few of Jupiter that I haven't looked at yet.
Mare Imbrium that you see here is thought to have been caused by a protoplanet that crashed into our moon over 3 billion years ago.
The Apollo 15 landing site is in this area. I should have marked it in Photoshop, but to get the general area, find the three craters (Archimeded, Aristillus, and Autolycus) in the lower right quadrant ... the large, medium, and small ones grouped together ... draw a straight line from the medium one ( Aristillus) to the small one (Autolycus), curve around the two mountains you see there and take a right angled turn into the mountain ridge. That's where it is ... near Hadley Rill.
Click on this a couple of times and you should be able to zoom in to see the detail.
Moon and crane vol.2
ISO-100
f/5.8
Focale : 89mm
Tps expo : 1/160 sec
Luminosité : 7.7
Lat : 47;20;55
Long : 5;2;15
Alt : 273.8
Dijon Nord, 07h13
Dec 05 2019 Montes Appenninus mountain range and Crater Eratosthenes. The total length of the range is about 600 km (370 mi), with some of the peaks rising as high as 5 km (3.1 mi). Moon Dec 05, 2019 #moon #astronomy #moonphotography #luna #lunaphotography #astrophotography #laluna #nikonp1000 #blogto #toronto #torontosky #canada #astro_photography_ #bluemoon #seaoftranquility #seaofserenity #halfmoon #crateraristoteles #moonphases #moonlovers #moonwatch #mareimbrium #eratosthenes #montesappenninus
The large dark oval in the bottom left is Plato crater (101 km / 63 mi diameter). It is a flat lava plain surrounded by high crater walls. Below it in this image is the much larger lava plain of Mare Imbrium (“Sea of Showers”). Surrounding Plato crater is a broad mountain chain called the Montes Apenninus. These mountains form part of one of the ring structures that surround the Moon’s Imbrium Basin. In these mountains to the right of Plato Crater a straight diagonal gash through the mountains is visible This is the Apennine Valley. It is a type of geological feature known as a graben, formed when the crust of the Moon was stretched and split, with subsequent collapse of material above the split settling down into the crevice that was opened by the split. Similar features are known on Earth, and some have recently formed in Iceland as part of the volcanic activity in the Reykjanes Peninsula.
Above the arc of the Apennine Mountains is another area of volcanic plains called Mare Frigoris “Sea of Cold”). This is an unusual lunar lava “sea”, in that it is elongated, not like the usual round shape of lunar lava plains. If you look closely you might see that the region of Mare Frigoris just right of center has a reddish tint, differing from the grayish colors of the rest of Mare Frigoris. That is material that was dredged up and scattered over the surface by the impact that gouged the youngish crater at center right known as Aristoteles. The reddish material surrounds Aristoteles itself, and spreads across Mare Frigoris and into the crater fields above the mare.
Aristoteles crater forms a prominent pair with Eudoxus, just below it. The mountains and escarpments below and to the left of this crater pair are a remnant of another, outermost ring structure surrounding the Imbrium Basin.
The area above Mare Frigoris is part of the North Polar region of the Moon. Here the landscape is dominated by a jumble of overlapping craters and plains. Most of these are old, weathered, and partly filled with ejected material from other impact events. On the boundary of this region and Mare Frigoris, above Plato Crater, a crater can be seen that appears nearly square. This is W. Bond crater. It is streaked by rays of lighter material. Similar rays can be seen across the North Polar regions. The North Pole itself is toward the upper left, beyond the horizon line. The northernmost crater I can detect in this photo is Byrd crater.
Celestron EdgeHD 8
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
ZWO 224MC
Best 92 video frames of 369
PIPP
Autostakkert!3
Registax 6 wavelets
Photoshop
This is a view of the region to the east of Mare Imbrium, where the Montes Caucasus (the eastern rim of the Imbrium Basin, separating Mare Imbrium from Mare Serenitatis), intersect with the Montes Alpes (the northern rim of the Imbrium Basin) and the lava plains of Mare Frigoris. This image is caught when the Sun was high in the Moon’s morning sky. Two prominent craters dominate the center of the region and will be the focus of this discussion.
The more northern and larger crater of the pair is Aristoteles (87 km wide and 3.3 km deep). Aristoteles is the older of the two craters, belonging to the Eratosthenean Period of the Moon’s history; it is between 1.1 and 3.2 billion years old. Aristoteles lies near the southern edge of Mare Frigoris and east of the Montes Alpes. A smaller crater (Mitchell) sits directly on the eastern rim of Aristoteles. Somewhat unusually, it is even older than Aristoteles, having survived the huge impact that created Aristoteles. The inner walls of Aristoteles are wide and terraced, and the floor of the crater is hilly. The central peaks are visible, but they are small and displaced south of the center of the crater basin. The area surrounding Aristoteles is covered by a blanket of ejecta, which has a radial pattern of dispersion, especially to the north.
The southern crater is Eudoxus. It lies just northeast of the Montes Caucasus. Eudoxus is about 67 km in diameter and 3.4 to 4.3 km deep. The mountains forming its rim tower as much as 3.35 km above the crater floor. The rim of Eudoxus has a series of terraces on the interior wall, and slightly worn ramparts about the exterior. It lacks a single central peak, but has a cluster of low hills about the midpoint of the floor. The remainder of the interior floor is relatively level. Eudoxus has a ray system (not visible in this image), and is consequently mapped as part of the Copernican System of craters, being less than 1.1 billion years old. Material ejected by the impact that excavated Eudoxus lapped up to and even spilled over the southern rim of Aristoteles.
The two craters lie in a jumbled, hummocky terrain. This is an area of broken and uplifted bedrock overlain by a wash of ejecta. Both of these terrain conditions are a consequence of the massive blast that created the Imbrium Basin. The craters themselves formed a billion and more years after this catastrophic event.
These two craters form a distinctive pair. They are well-known friends to those of us who enjoy telescopic views of the Moon.
This image was cropped from a splice of two separate but overlapping images. Microsoft ICE software was used to create the splice. Each image was created from a stack of the best 30% of 5350 video frames.
Software:
Video capture software: FireCapture
Stacking software: AutoStakkert! 3
Wavelets-processing: Registax 6
Final buff: Photoshop CC 2021.
Equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD8, 2032mm focal length, f/10
ZWO ASI 290MM planetary camera
Celestron Advanced VX Equatorial Mount
La Mer des Pluies, le Golfe des Iris, le Verrier, les Monts des Alpes, les Monts Apennins, le cratère de Platon, Aristillus, Autolycus, Archimède et Eratosthène ...
Télescope Schmidt Cassegrain F/D = 10 Celestron NexStar 6 SE, APN compact Olympus X-790 en projection à l'oculaire.
Taken with a Skywatcher 120ED Esprit APO and PGR Grasshopper 3 fitted with a 610nm long pass filter. Moon at 86% 14 August 2016.
Best 40% of 2100 frames stacked in AS2, CS5 processing.
The Apollo 15 landing site at the eastern edge of the mare is annotated in red if you zoom in.
Three panel mosaic of the eastern rim of Mare Imbrium on Earth's moon. One of my favorite regions on the moon and include the craters Plato, Archimedes, Aristoteles, Montes Apenninus and Vallis Alpes. Did you know Mare Imbrium is one of the larger craters in our solar system?
Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED Triplet APO Refractor, ZWO ASI290MC, SharpCap Pro v3.2, best 150 of 2000 frames. Image date: 10 July 2019. Location: The Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly, PA, USA.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian Reflector, Barlow Lens Not Used, ZWO ASI 385MC. Captured using Firecapture.
Processed with Registax 6, Adobe Lightroom & G.I.M.P.
A two pane mosaic stitched using Microsoft Image Composite Editor.
Sunrise over the Mare Imbrium revealing many interesting features. A lava filled impact basin with evidence of many subsequent impacts, rilles, fault lines and wrinkles.
Best viewed using the expansion arrows.
See wikipedia Mare Imbrium and wikipedia Crater Copernicus for more information.
Photographed with Nikon Coolpix P900 (83x optical zoom) + HDR (Photomatix)
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Das "Meer des Regens" mit dem Krater Kopernikus (ca. 90 - 95 km Durchmesser) und seinem imposanten Strahlensystem unterhalb. Das Mare Imbrium hat einen Durchmesser von ca. 1.146 Kilometern. Seine Flächengröße beträgt etwa 830.000 km² - das ist mehr als die doppelte Fläche von Deutschland.
Das Mare Imbrium war das Ziel mehrerer Mond Missionen: neben der sowjetischen Sonde Lunik 2, die am 13. September 1959 als erstes vom Menschen geschaffene Objekt hier den Mond erreichte und dem ebenfalls sowjetischen Mondrover Lunochod 1 (17. November 1970 bis zum 4. Oktober 1971) landete auch Apollo 15 (am 31. Juli 1971 ) im östlichen Randbereich. Zuletzt besuchte die chinesische Raumsonde Chang’e-3 mit dem Rover Yutu den Norden des Mares am 14. Dezember 2013.
Weitere Informationen siehe wikipedia.
Sunrise at the Bay of Rainbows. The Moon, Tuesday 19th January 2016
Celestron Edge HD 11, ASI120M camera
AS!2, Registax6, PS CS6
London
From the Sinus Iridium top left through the Mare Imbrium with the Alpine Valley in the centre.
Atmospheric seeing was very bad on this night and my USB 3 connection to my ZWO ASI 174 MC camera wasnt working at full speed for some reason so this is about 2000 frames stacked in AutoStakkert!3 with the best 30% chosen.
Nexstar 8SE SCT telescope 2000mm focal length f/10
ZWO ASI174 MC Cooled CMOS camera at -1c
Ioptron ZEQ25GT equatorial mount.,
Some Lunar 100 objects visible:
L3 Mare/Highland dichotomy
L4 Apennine mountains
L19 Alpine Valley
L21 Sinus Iridium
L23 Mount Pico
L26 Mare Frigoris
L27 Crater Archimedes
L76 Crater W Bond
ISO-100
f/5.8
Focale : 89mm
Tps expo : 1/640 sec
Luminosité : 10.40
Lat : 47;20;55
Long : 5;2;15
Alt : 273.8
Dijon Nord, 08h34
The mountain chains that surround the Imbrium Basin are endlessly fascinating, for their variety, beauty and now, human history. I focus in this photo on the mountains that define the Eastern and Southeastern bounds of the Imbrium Basin.
The chain of high, sharp peaks that arc upwards from the lower left are the Montes Apenninus. These formed immediately when a proto-planet gouged the enormous Imbrium Basin into the face of the Moon. Rising up to 14,000 feet, the mountains form an arcing chain that gradually bends from east to northeast, ending at Promontorium Fresnel. Here, there is a gap where the Mare Imbrium to the west joins the Mare Serenitatis to the east. At the north end of this gap in the upper right of this photo, lie the first peaks of another mountain chain, the Montes Caucasus (perhaps a feature of an upcoming image).
Two craters are prominent in the upper left, within the Imbrium basin. Along the upper margin, left of center is Autolycus crater. On the left border, spilling out of the frame, is the much larger Archimedes crater. A field of rubble (ejecta from the impacts that created the craters) and many small craterlets connects the two craters. A larger similar field extends southward along the left side from Archimedes. If you look closely, a fissure, or rima, extends from Archimedes back towards the Apennines. This is Rima Archimedes.
The area just inside the arc of the Montes Apenninus shows many other rimae. Southeast of Rima Archimedes in center left, the broad Rima Bradley can be seen running diagonally from southwest to the northeast . It ends in a smooth region where lava filled the low valleys of the Imbrium Basin. this area is known as Palus Putredinis (gross, right?). If you extend the trace of Rima Bradley toward the upper right, you see another series of cracks that run from Palus Putredinis to the area inside Promontorum Fresnel and the gap connecting Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis. These are the Rimae Fresnel.
The real star of the rima show here lies in a small gap between the outer and inner ridges of the Montes Apenninus. Lying just above center, Rima Hadley, aka Hadley Rille, snakes northward out of the Montes Apenninus, through a narrow valley, past a small crater, and then abruptly turns westward towards Palus Putredinis at the foot of Mons Hadley. Many of us can remember those days in July and August of 1971 when Apollo 15 landed in the small flat between the 14,000 ft. peak of Mons Hadley and the 1000 ft. chasm at the bend of Hadley Rille. This was the first mission where the crew used the lunar rover to explore their surroundings. Quite a mission!
The lower right corner of this image is filled with a region of low hills and hummocks known as the Montes Haemus. This is an area where debris of the Imbrium impact flowed out over the surrounding terrain, and filled space between the newborn Montes Apenninus and the old basin rim of Mare Serenitatis. Many such areas surround the Imbrium Basin, mainly to the south, southeast and east, suggesting that the proto-planet impacted from the northwest.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.
Best 10% of 3261 video frames, stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2019.
Here is a wide-field view of the northwest section of Mare Imbrium showing Sinus Iridum, the crater Plato and the Montes Rech mountain range.
Tech Specs: ZWO ASI290MC camera and Meade 12” LX90 telescope mounted on a Celestron CGEM-DX mount – an Antares Focal Reducer was used for the wide view. Software used included Sharpcap v2.9, AutoStakkert! Alpha Version 2.3.0.21, and ImagesPlus v5.75a. Best 2500 frames out of 10000 frames captured. Photographed on March 8, 2017 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Moon and crane vol.3
ISO-100
f/5.8
Focale : 89mm
Tps expo : 1/160 sec
Luminosité : 7.7
Lat : 47;20;55
Long : 5;2;15
Alt : 273.8
Dijon Nord, 07h13
This image is included in 2 galleries:- 1) "Those Special Moments 3" curated by thanks 173rd Airborne and 2) "2025 09 08 Monntag" by BAKAWI.
Facts:-
1) A total lunar eclipse was be visible across Australia on the night of 7–8 September 2025.
2) The Moon remained in totality for 82 minutes, glowing deep red in Earth’s shadow.
3) Peak eclipse in Melbourne occurred at 4:11 am AEST.
4) The Moon was near perigee, appearing larger and brighter.
5) This was the last fully visible total lunar eclipse from Australia until March 2026.
This was taken at 4:33am with camera setting f/5.6, 1/8 sec and ISO 8000. The weather condition was very good, many regions on the moon surface were clearly discernible. In addition, nearby background stars also showed up as crisp, small dots.
A blood moon is the dramatic red glow of the moon during a total lunar eclipse. It happens when Earth's shadow completely covers the full moon, filtering sunlight through our atmosphere and turning the lunar surface deep red or coppery brown. Because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted, most full moons don't line up perfectly. But when they do, the result is a striking blood moon eclipse, a phenomenon that has fascinated sky-watchers for centuries.
Please check my notes on different regions on the moon.
6( Explored : Sep 23, 2025 #36 )
ISO-100
f/4.0
Focale : 9mm
Tps expo : 1/30 sec
Luminosité : 3.28
Lat : 47;20;55
Long : 5;2;15
Alt : 430.5
Dijon Nord, 21h38
The Archimedes Crater Trio, the Eastern Imbrium Basin Rim Mountains, and the Montes Haemus.
I'm really happy after last night. I was able to set up my telescope and catch a few photos of the Moon for the first time in what seems like a LONG time (post knee surgery). Local atmospheric seeing was above average, but photography was hampered by thermal disturbances over my neighbors house (hot roof after 90+ degree day).
It was great to take the scope out for a drive! Even better to do so without any wrecks!
Canon EOS 80D + Orion SkyQuest XT10 + Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate (giving an effective focal length of 3,000 mm).
Broadstairs, April 2021.
“Sinus Iridum at Dawn”
One of my favorite features on the Moon is the dramatic crescent of cliffs that define Sinus Iridum, the “Bay of Rainbows” located on the northwestern rim of Mare Imbium. These enormous cliffs rise to heights of 15 to 20 thousand feet above the lava plain they enclose. Note the two horns of the crescent. These are Promentorium Laplace (upper, northern) and Promentorium Heraclides (lower, southern). Promentorium Laplace is seen here casting a long triangular shadow; the peaks of this prominence rise nearly 10,500 feet.
The linear stretch of isolated mountains rising from the plain of Mare Imbrium at top center are the Montes Recti. The pair of craters at center are Helicon (left) and Le Verrier (right). Timocharis Crater is in the lower right corner.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, f/10, 2032mm focal length
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount