Extreme Libration

[Gladiator]

Hi all,

It's been a looong while since my last lunar image sending.
So much, that I've a backlog of images as old as 1 year and half!

The local weather here is the worst ever with 100+ days (and still counting...) gone with exceptionally poor conditions. Just incredible.

Fortunately (if I can use this term), I had time enough to process some very old images captured on Summer 2008 and never processed yet.

These 2 shots dated June 10, 2008 are showing 2 maris which seldom appear this favourable because placed close to the lunar limb.
A very favourable western libration (7.5 degs) delivered a nice view of the mare Humboldtianum and mare Marginis.

Find the 2 images in my blog page:

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/2010/01/librazione-estrema.html?lan=english

Both the 2 images were hard enough to process given the very high sun angle causing a very little contrast on the lunar ground.

Hope you can enjoy them all nonetheless.

More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.

[iceman]

Nice images Paolo, great to see you back.

[michaellxv]

Hi Paolo,

I love the way the shallow angle shows up the terrain features in the MARE HUMBOLDTIANUM image even without the long shadows due to the sun angle. Not as easy to see on MARE MARGINIS but this could be because I have to tilt my head over to see it at the right angle.

[StarGazing]

Fantastic shots Paolo. Your scopes look great :eyepop:, best of luck with it all.

:thumbsup:Alex

[Inmykombi]

Very, Very nice indeed.

Such lovely detail in tose images.

Keep those Moon photos coming.:D

[Gladiator]

Hi guys,

Thank you all for your comments!
It's a pleasure to be back sharing my passion with you!
I missed that for a while.

More to come yet...