Observation by John Arnold: "Ancient Newton", the ghostly ...

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John Arnold

Observer

John Arnold

Observed

2025 Nov 28 - 17:25

Uploaded

2025 Dec 01 - 11:08

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

Stellalyra 8" Classical Cassegrain, ASI678MM camera with 742 nm long-pass filter

Exposure

exp. time 0.88 msec, stack of best 150 from 10000-frame video

Location

Suburban North Leeds

Target name

"Ancient Newton"

Title

"Ancient Newton", the ghostly twin of Plato

About this image

Next to Plato is its buried twin, informally called "Ancient Newton", which is evident here. Seeing conditions at the time per poor, and the moon's elevation was only 10 degrees above the horizon

Files associated with this observation

Plato region at 1725 on 281125.jpg (514.7 kB)

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