Observation by Alan Snook: Sunrise over Aristarchus Plateau

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Alan Snook

Observer

Alan Snook

Observed

2025 May 09 - 21:05

Uploaded

2025 May 12 - 08:54

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

130EDT refractor, ZWO ASI462MC

Exposure

2ms x 25,000 frames stacked

Location

Kent, UK

Target name

Aristarchus Plateau, Agricola Mountains

Title

Sunrise over Aristarchus Plateau

About this image

Brilliant Aristarchus is 40km wide. Note the radial dark bands that stretch up the inside wall, one suggestion is these are glass-rich impact ejecta. Since William Herschel's time there have been reports of transient events here, glows, bright spots, etc. In 1971 a spectrometer on the Apollo 15 Command Module detected radon gas in the locality.

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