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Craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel
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Lunar terminator 15_01_2012 06_02_40. Spoiler The lunar terminator over the craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel captured with a 100mm refractor and Vista pro webcam. Light Yellow filter + IR-cut filter
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Lunar V
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Look for the unusual 'V-shape' beside crater Ukert during the quarter phase of the Moon. Read more Ukert is a lunar impact crater that lies on a strip of rugged ground between Mare Vaporum to the north and Sinus Medii in the south. Read more
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Lunar Maltese cross
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The "Maltese cross" of Robert E. Curtiss is an X-shaped illumination effect (similar to the first quarter lunar X) located between the craters Parry and Gambart in the Fra Mauro Zeta region, and NE of the small crater Fra Mauro HA. The X-shaped feature becomes visible ~15 hours after the L...
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Posidonius crater
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Posidonius is a 95 km wide lunar impact crater located on the western edge of Mare Serenitatis Read more
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Rupes Altai
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This shows Mare Fecunditatis (top right) with the roundish Mare Nectaris (near center) with the craters Theophilus and Cyrillus on the terminator. Lower down is the nearby crater Catharina. Further down at the center of is a curious strai...
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Linné Crater
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Moon Crater Reveals Vital Secrets of Impacts Scientists trying to understand the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies have found a good case study on the moon. Linné Crater, which lies in the moon's Mare Serenitatis region, is just 2.2 kilometres wide, but extremely young and...
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Mare Nectaris
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Mare Nectaris with craters Theophilus and Cyrillus taken with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter, IR-cut filter. 2X Barlow lens
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Lunar W
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The Lunar W can be observed on the floor of Mare Imbrium near to the Montes Apenninus mountain range
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Montes Caucasus
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Look for the unusual 'L-shape' in Montes Caucasus during the full Moon.
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Shackleton crater
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Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole Video made using LRO data showing the illumination of Shackleton crater, a 21-km-diameter structure situated adjacent to the Moon's south pole. The resolution is 30 meter...
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Crater Armstrong
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Armstrong is a tiny lunar impact crater located in the southern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It lies about 50 kilometres to the northeast of the Apollo 11 landing site. Named after Neil Armstrong, the crater is the eastern-most of the row of three craters named in honour of the Apollo 11 crew memb...
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Cryptomaria
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Title: Volumes of Cryptomafic Deposits on the Western Limb of the Moon: Implications for Lunar Volcanism Authors: Irene Antonenko Originally, the Moon was thought to consist of light, highland regions and dark, mare regions. The identification of dark-haloed craters has shown that some high...
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Eratosthenes crater
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Eratosthenes crater 15_01_2012 06_09_18. The moon captured with a 100mm refractor and Vista pro webcam. Light Yellow filter + IR-cut filter Eratosthenes is a relatively deep lunar impact crater that lies on the boundary between the Mare...
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South Pole-Aitken basin
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Asteroids May Have Delivered Magnetic Material to the Moon After running sophisticated computer models, a trio of researchers believe a giant crater at the moon's south pole may hold the answer to a long-standing mystery about why portions of the lunar crust have a magnetic field and other parts do...
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Twelve new lunar craters
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for twelve lunar craters. Expand (796kb, 1024 x 1737) Credit Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography Features identified on the Sea of Rains Lunokhod-1 (Luna 17) lunar rovers traverse map have been named as: Crater Al...
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