Apollo 15 landing site

[Averton]

To try and discipline our lunar imaging we have started working on the Lunar 100. So on the evening of the 2 December, after imaging Jupiter and waiting for Mars, we took a series of images along the terminator. We have yet to go through them finding the Lunar 100 subjects, but particularly liked this view of the Apennine Mountains with the Apollo 15 landing site.
Image taken with our 6" SCT, 2x barlow and ASI178MC.

[AstroViking]

I see the 'Wallace' crater, but where's 'Gromit'?? They did get to the moon, remember!

[5ash]

Really nice picture , like the effort you’ve made to label the features.
Regards philip:thumbsup:

[Dave882]

Great shot and excellent processing.
It's one of my favourite areas to view - so rich in detail i feel I notice something new every time. Great job

[Crater101]

Excellent crisp images with a lot of detail! :2thumbs: My compliments indeed. The contrast in particular is just about spot on!

[Averton]

They certainly did and we all know that the moon is made of cheese :)

[Averton]

Thanks Philip.
We like to look at the Virtual Moon atlas and identify what we are seeing in the image, hence the labeling.

[Averton]

Thanks David.
Its my (Clare) favourite area as well. So much to zoom in and see. Someone else pointed out that Ina (Blue Lake) is also in this image. No.99 on the Lunar 100 - yeh :)

[Averton]

Thanks Warren :)