Observation by Bill Leatherbarrow: The Marsh of Decay

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Bill Leatherbarrow

Observer

Bill Leatherbarrow

Observed

2024 Jan 18 - 19:47

Uploaded

2024 Jan 23 - 14:24

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

OMC300 Mak-Cass
ASI290MM camera

Location

Sheffield

Target name

Palus Putredinis

Title

The Marsh of Decay

About this image

Palus Putredinis (Marsh of Decay) is an unfortunate name for the small patch of relatively smooth mare lavas south-east of the crater Archimedes, but it offered a remarkable sight under low morning illumination on 18th January. Seeing was not particularly good, but Archimedes showed up emerging from its night at the upper left of the image, while Mons Hadley and other peaks of the Apennines caught the bright morning sun and cast long dramatic shadows toward the lower right. The Bradley and Fresnel rilles can be seen, and the Rima Archimedes is just emerging from shadow. The famous Hadley rille, visited by the Apollo 15 astronauts, is still obscured on this image by the shadows cast by the Apennine peaks.

Files associated with this observation

PALUS PUTREDINUS (crop)_2024-01-18-1947_col 2,83_3-U-IR-Moon_lapl5_ap610.png (1.8 MB)

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