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39%
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44%
8.5d
54%
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65%
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75%
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84%
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87%
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100%

Moon age 8.5 days – Illumination 54 % - 21.09.2015

Image number and crater list
Mosaics
Interesting image details
Special Images
  New mages 2016  
 
Due to a plethora of excellent photographs around half 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 8.6 days at an illumination of 55 %. 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 Abulfeda, Catena Abulfeda crater chain Abulfeda
02 Vallis Alpes sinuous rille inside the valley
03 Alphonsus and Arzachel system of rilles (Arzachel, Alphonsus) and pyroclastic deposits (Alphonsus)
04 Archimedes craterlets on the floor of Archimedes, sinuous rill Rima Hadley, landing site of Apollo 15
05 Aristillus and Cassini -
06 Arzachel and Thebit Rupes Recta
07 Bessel and Vallis Krishna pyroclastic Rimae Sulpicius
08 Bode Rima Bode
09 Callipus, Montes Kaukasus polygonal crater form
10 Delauney and Lacaille double crater Delauney
11 Descartes landing site of Apollo 16
12 Deslandres Cassinis bright spot
13 Dionysius, Sabine and Ritter unique bright and dark ray system of Dionysius  
14 Hyginus, Ukert craterlets in Rima Hyginus, pyroclastic deposit Mare Vaporum  
15 Lineé, Vallis Krishna -  
16 Lineé gap between Montes Kaukasus and Apenninen  
17 Maginus -  
18 Manilius, Sinus Fidei Rima Conon  
19 Maurolycos and Stöffler -  
20 Rima Römer -  
21 Murchison and Pallas -  
22 Ptolemaeus craterlets on the crater floor  
23 Purbach and Regiomontanus -  
24 Triesnecker and Sinus Medii Rimae Triesnecker  
25 Ukert and Pallas part of the Imbrium Sculpture  
26 Wallace a nameless rille in the southeast  
27 Walter and Descartes Cassinis bright spot  
28 Walter, Werner and Aliacensis possible volcanic vent in crater Walter  

 
Mosaics

Sinus Medii (Ukert, part of the Imbrium sculpture and Rimae Triesnecker)
Catena Abulfeda and Descartes (landing site of Apollo 16)
Rimae Triesnecker and Rima Hyginus (Sinus Medii)

NEW 2016 - Moon age 8.8 days


Ptolemäeus till Purbach
Heraclitus, Stöffler, Autolycus and Maginus

 
Interesting image details

Image 019 - shows the complex crater Stöffler. On the crater floor - like zebra stripes - ejecta from the Tycho impact
Image 022 - shows the three big crater Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Albategnius

NEW 2016 - Das Bild 0013 - shows the strange crater Delaunay. In the central part is elongated ridge that divides the crater. There are only two similar craters on the near side of the moon: Schiller and Heraclides. The Moon age was 8.8 days.

NEW 2016 - Das Bild 0041 - The image 0041 shows a part of the so-called "Imbrium Sculpture" around the crater Ukert in Sinus Medii. Also in the image Hyginus and the Rima Hyginus at a Moon age of 8.8 days.



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

The image to the left shows the Tycho ejecta on the floor of crater Stöffler.

Moon age from left to right: 8.5, 9.6 and 10.6 days

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« Special Images

NEW 2016 Moon age 8.8 days

The craters Demonax, Scott und Amundsen near the south pole (85 degrees latitude) at very favorable libration. Moretus at sunrise

Plato at sunrise with extreme shadows of the eastern crater wall
 
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