Observation by Chris Holt: Moon eastern limb with +3 deg libration

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Chris Holt

Observer

Chris Holt

Observed

2023 Nov 24 - 21:52

Uploaded

2023 Nov 30 - 17:41

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

Skywatcher 200p with Celestron 2X Barlow
Svbony SV305 Camera

Exposure

9.36 ms

Location

Aston, Bampton, Oxfordshire, UK

Target name

Eastern limb of Moon showing area between Mare Undarum and Goddard

Title

Moon eastern limb with +3 deg libration

About this image

No cloud but seeing poor.

46.1 fps, 20 per cent of 4149 captured frames stacked in AutoStakkert 3. Grey converted, rotated and cropped in Gimp, wavelet sharpening and contrast stretching in Registax 6.

Moon 11.52 days, 92.7 % illumination. Libration in longitude +3 deg. 14', in latitude -0 deg. 12'. Mare Undarum is to the left of the image centre. The eastern limb in the image has, in anticlockwise order, Mare Smythii, Neper and Mare Marginis. Further to the east of the last is Goddard.

Files associated with this observation

21_51_47_lapl5_ap556_conv_rot_gy_wv_shrp_stch_cr_ann.jpg (248.6 kB)

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