12 Day moon

[gaa_ian]

With Clear skies not coming very often at the moment, I took the opportunity to take a look at the 12 Day old Moon.
The outstanding areas of the Moon at this time are undoubtly, to the west of Mare Imbrium & Oceanus Procellarum.
To the North of Mare Ibrium are the edge on craters Babbage & Anaximander.
The Illuminated cliff faces in the north west of Anaximander are quite a sight.
Babbage itself has most of the crater rim & a central crater edge illuminated.
Moving to the brightest crater on the moon Aristarchus, we find the amazing 160km long Schroters valley, a collapsed lava tube or gigantic proportions, starting out at 500m wide & stretching out to 10km wide.
At the eyepiece it appears as a bright curving "hook" shape, terminating at Herodotus.
The Gruithuisen Lava Domes are quite a sight, looking quite different from the other rugged lunar terain.
Tried for some photos, but afocal is a bit tricky, will have to give the LPI a go next time.

[Robert_T]

Evocative description Ian, makes me want to go tramping through the rilles and craters myself - break out that LPI!:)

[rmcpb]

Cloudy here so its nice to live a viewing session through someone else - still feeling like Voldermort.

[gaa_ian]

Thanks Guys, it was a great session last night.
Topped of with a a view of some nice bright Geminids in the early hours of the morning.
I will be watching out for the Geminids again Tonight !
PS: who is Voldermort, Rob ?

[rmcpb]

What, you have never heard of the baddy in Harry Potter. You need some young kids hanging around :)

[gaa_ian]

Ahhhh ... now I'm with you !
My Kids are a bit young for Harry Potter, it would be too :scared: for them.

[ving]

well you cant have him :P

tony, maybe you are just too old for harry potter :P

I really have to go see the moon again. its always satisfying :)

[rmcpb]

Dave,

I'm with you, it always amazes me that people actively avoid the only object we can see real detail on. Don't get me wrong, faint fuzzies are great when you think about the distances and the size of these but the moon, you can really see it!!

See ya

[asimov]

Yes! Do break out with your LPI....Nice lil' report Ian.

[gaa_ian]

Thanks John ... I just have to work out how to use the thing properly!
I may be mistaken, but I think I can take multiple images with it using the dob with out tracking & combine (stack) those images in the meade software?