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Oceanus Procellarum
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Crater Grimaldi (bottom) and Oceanus Procellarum captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter
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Hevelius crater
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Hevelius is a low-rimmed lunar crater that lies at the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum, named after the astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Read more
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Crater Fracastorius
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Spoiler Bright lunar ray leading to Crater Fracastorius and Mare Nectaris captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter Fracastorius is the lava-flooded remn...
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Crater Messala
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Crater Messala (top) and crater Endymion (left) captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter
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Kepler lunar crater
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Kepler (Latin Keplerus) is a lunar impact crater that lies between the Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Insularum in the east. To the southeast is the crater Encke. Kepler is most notable for the prominent ray system that covers the surrounding mare. The rays extend for well over 300 kilomete...
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Crater Maurolycus
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Maurolycus is a prominent lunar crater in the southern highland region of the Moon, and can be observed with 10 x 50 binoculars when near to the terminus. Image captured with a 100mm refractor and webcam.
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Crater Theophilus
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Spoiler Theophilus crater taken through a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Light yellow filter + UV + IR-cut filter. 2X achromatic Barlow lens.
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Sabine crater
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Sabine is a lunar crater that forms a nearly matching pair with Ritter to the northwest. The two rims are separated by a distance of only a couple of kilometers. To the west is the bowl-shaped crater Schmidt, and farther to the north are Manners and Arago. Read more
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Crater Cleomedes
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Crater Cleomedes and Mare Crisium taken with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter, IR-cut filter. 2X Barlow lens Cleomedes is a prominent lunar crater located in the northeast part of the visible Moon, to the nort...
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Earth moons
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Early Earth may have had two moons Earth once had two moons, which merged in a slow-motion collision that took several hours to complete, researchers propose in Nature today. Both satellites would have formed from debris that was ejected when a Mars-size protoplanet smacked into Earth late in its f...
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Moon Curse
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Source of 'Moon Curse' Revealed by Eclipse Strange events have long been linked to nights of a full moon, though careful scrutiny dispels any association. So, when signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists sought an explanation in re...
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Time of the New Moon
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Title: A Radio Determination of the Time of the New Moon Author: Y. A. Hafez, L. Trojan, F. H. Albaqami, A. Z. Almutairi, R. D. Davies, C. Dickinson, L. Piccirillo The detection of the New Moon at sunset is of importance to communities based on the lunar calendar. This is traditionally undertaken with...
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Transient Lunar Phenomena
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Title: Activity in the lunar surface: Transient Lunar Phenomena Authors: Cruz Roa AF (University of Tolima) Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP) observed on the surface of the moon, are of high rarity, low repetition rate and very short observation times, resulting in that there is little informatio...
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Stuart Event
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Half-Century Old Moon Mystery Solved In the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 1953, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma photographed what he believed to be a massive, white-hot fireball of vaporised rock rising from the center of the Moon's face. If his theory was right, Dr. Leon Stuart would be the fir...
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Lunar Bridge
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Title: On the So-Called "Lunar Bridge" Authors: Sadil, F. This article gives the results of the visual observations at the end of 1955 of the so-called "lunar bridge", at the Public Observatory (the former Stefánik Observatory) in Prague. On July 29th 1953. Mr J. O'Neill, Sc...
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