87% waxing gibbous moon on 13 April 2022

[Averton]

Mosaic of eight images captured using a 6" SCT at F10 and ASI178MC. 60 second videos, best 150 frames stacked in AS!3, sharpened in Registax and processed in GIMP. Full resolution image here https://www.flickr.com/photos/153787832@N02/52004250014/

[Averton]

South pole region close up using 2x barlow.

[Averton]

Close up of north polar region (upside down for the northern hemisphere people :) ) using 2x barlow.

[Saturnine]

Love the full resolution , full disc mosaic. Nice and sharp with lots of interesting features under this angle of illumination. The close ups are pretty good too, the northern polar region doesn't get enough exposure, there are plenty of interesting craters etc.

[Averton]

Thanks Jeff. In the recent Sky & Telescope editorial where they spoke about the types of moon people - we are definitely moon lovers not haters. We never get tired of looking at the details. The concept that people could actually be living there long term possibly in our life time seems incredible, almost science fiction.

[Maberly1959]

thanks nice sharp images, thanks for labelling the details too

[Averton]

Thanks Amanda. We enjoy looking up the moon maps to identify the features we are seeing.

There is a great free book to download by Alan Chu http://www.alanchuhk.com/

Also the free Virtual Moon Atlas program is a great resource http://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start