| Image |
Date |
Moon
age -
Illumination |
detailed
description |
|
| Aristarchus |
05.08. |
13.3d - 96% |
The picture shows the very young crater Aristarch.
These young craters (as well as Tycho and Copernicus) often have extremely
bright crater walls and crater edges. With these craters it is practically
impossible to find an exposure that adequately shows both the surroundings and
the craters. If you expose the crater to the environment, it is completely
overexposed and burnt out, if you expose it to the crater, the environment is
hopelessly underexposed.
The image
consists of 2 images. The lower plane is exposed on the crater, the upper plane
is exposed on the surroundings. The upper plane is masked and erased in the
crater area, so that the correctly exposed crater appears. |
| Catena Kraft |
06.08. |
14.3d - 99% |
A rarely seen crater chain that connects the two
craters Kraft and Cardanus. Due to the large perspective distortion,
earth-bound images tend to show a groove or furrow. |
| Clavius |
14.08. |
22.0d - 59.5% |
This picture and also the next shows the craters
Schiller and Heinzel are daylight shots of the moon. The sun was already about
20 degrees above the horizon. Preconditions for the success of such pictures
are a clear sky, an absolutely clean and scattered light-free optics and the
use of a Baader IR pass filter for calming the seeing and darkening the sky
background. Both pictures show a decreasing moon
phase.
|
| Heinzel - Schiller |
16.08. |
24.0d - 36% |
see description under Clavius |
| Rimae Grimaldi |
05.08. |
13.3d - 96% |
The picture shows the groove system Rimae Grimaldi
which is rarely seen on moon photographs. Additionally the end of Rimae
Sirsalis and Rima Hansteen. |
| Keplers ray system |
05.08. |
13.3d - 96% |
The picture expressively shows the extensive ray
system of the young crater Kepler. The polygonal form of Kepler and Encke is
also clearly visible. |
| Southpole |
03.08. |
11.3d - 85% |
The image of the south pole region of the moon was
taken with 6.500mm focal length under optimal libration
conditions. It is a mosaic of 2 images and some of the large craters
near the poles are labeled. |
