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3.3d
12%
4.5d
17%
5.1d
22%
5.5d
25%
6.1d
30%
7.1d
39%
7.5d
44%
8.5d
54%
9.6d
65%
10.5d
75%
11.5d
84%
12.1d
87%
12.5d
92%
13.1d
95%
14.5d
100%

Moon age 10.5 days – Illumination 75 % - 26.07.2015

Image number and crater list
Mosaics
Interesting image details
Special Images
  New mages 2016  
 
Due to a plethora of excellent photographs of this phase of the moon, we have decided to divide the images on two pages. On both pages, the lunar structures are listed alphabetically. The second page shows images during the moon age of 10.6 days at an illumination of 76  %. To view the images - click here.
 
 
Image Number Craters - in alphabetical order Special details

download pdf-file with descriptions of exceptional or unique lunar structures at this moon age
LUNAR 100
   
01 Agatharchides Rima and Megadomeplateau Agatharchides
02 Birmingham -
03 Bullialdus, König and Kies Rimae Hippalus, Rima Agatharchides, lunar dome Kies phi
04 Bullialdus and Lubinietzky Rimae Hippalus
05 Capuanus, Marth and Ramsden concentric double crater Marth and Rimae Ramsden
06 Clavius, Blancanus and Scheiner -
07 Clavius and Longomontanus -
08 Clavius and Moretus -
09 Deslandres and Walter -
10 Euler and Tobias Mayer -
11 Heinzel and Mee at dawn
12 Hortensius large lunar domefield
13 Hortensius large lunar domefield  
14 Copernicus and Hortensius -  
15 Moretus, Malapert and Newton -  
16 Moretus and Newton -  
17 Moretus and Scott -  
18 Montes Riphaeus -  
19 Pitatus and Hesiodus A concentric double crater Hesiodus A, FF-Krater Pitatus and Rima Hesiodus  
20 Plato Mons Pico, Montes Teneriffe and Montes Recti  
21 Sinus Iridum -  
22 Copernicus pyroclastic deposit southeast of Copernicus  
23 Rima Hippalus -  
24 Stadius, Copernicus and Erathostenes secundary craters of Copernicus impact  
25 Stöffler and Mautolycos Tycho ejecta  
26 Tycho structured crater floor  
27 Tycho, Longomontanus and Wilhelm structured crater floor of Tycho  
28 Tycho and Maginus structured crater floor of Tycho  

 
Mosaics

Bullialdus, Kies und Rimae Hippalus
Clavius, Moretus und Longomontanus
Plato und Sinus Iridum
Tycho


NEw 2016 - Moon age 10.8 days

Region near the south pole (favorable libration)
Mons LA Hire, Dorsum Zirkel und Dorsum Heim

Kopernikus till Landsberg

 
Interesting image details

Image 024 - shows the ghost crater Stadius and the young craters Copernicus and Erathostenes
Image 028 - shows one of the most recent lunar craters - Tycho - in high resolution with details on the crater floor and central mountains.

Detailed descriptions of other exceptional or unique structures at this moon age you can find in this pdf-file
 


« Special Images

The image shows four illumination phases of the big crater Clavius

Upper: 9.6 and 10.5 days - lower: 12.1 and 13.1 days
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« Special Images NEW 2016 Moon age 10.8 days

Heinzel and Mee at sunrise
Newton at sunrise
 
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