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Lunar volcanism
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Hotspot found on Moon's far side Scientists have found evidence of volcanoes on the far side of the Moon. The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature Geoscience is a rare example of volcanism on the lunar surface not associated with asteroid, meteor or comet impact events. Until now the best kn...
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Crater Lev
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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on the Moon. Lev for a 0.06-km-wide lunar crater located at 12.7°N, 62.2°E. The feature was named after a traditional male Russian first name.
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16% Crescent Moon
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16% crescent Moon captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter.
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Mare Tranquillitatis
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This shows the terminator passing through Mare Tranquillitatis and highlighting a few craters contained in the flooded basin.
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Goldschmidt lunar crater
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Goldschmidt is a large lunar crater of the variety commonly termed a walled plain. It lies in the northern part of the Moon's near side, and appears oval in shape due to foreshortening. The rim is actually relatively circular, although the western rim is overlain by the prominent crater Anaxagoras....
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Sinus Roris
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Sinus Roris (latin for "Bay of Dew") is an extension of the northern edge of Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. The IAU-defined selenographic coordinates of this bay are 54.0° N, 56.6° W, and the diameter is 202 km. The borders of this feature are somewhat indistinct. The bay proper is frame...
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Aristarchus crater
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LROC Explores the West Wall of Aristarchus Crater NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), overseen by ASU professor Mark Robinson, has been busy taking high resolution photos of the Moon's surface. Most recently, LROC captu...
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Crater Grimaldi
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Crater Grimaldi (center bottom) and Oceanus Procellarum captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens. Crater Riccioti is on the limb next to Grimaldi. Grimaldi is a large ba...
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Mare Frigoris
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Crater Aristoteles and Eudoxus and Mare Frigoris taken with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter, IR-cut filter. 2X Barlow lens
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Crater Oenopides
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Crater Oenopides (left of crater Babbage) and Mare Frigoris captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens. The central peak and far lit rim of crater Pythagoras can be seen ju...
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Crater Schiller
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Tycho crater and the elongated crater Schiller (near the bottom) captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens The round Mare Humorum is on the upper left of the image
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Moon Maiden
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini scientific map of the moon produced around c. 1679 contains a strange silhouette at Promontorium Heraclides commonly known as the 'Moon Maiden'. The feature is best observed when the terminator is over that region; slightly less than when the moon is 11 days old. Sinus Ir...
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Tycho crater
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Tycho crater captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter
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Schröter crater
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Schröter is a lunar crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum, and named after German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter. The rim of Schröter is heavily worn and eroded, with a wide gap in the southern wall and a deep indentation to the southeast. There is no central peak a...
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Plato's hook
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A paper recently appeared in this Journal which proposed that the hook-like shadow recorded on the floor of the lunar crater Plato by Wilkins and Moore on 1952 April 3, is projected by a complex and elongated hill lying on Plato's floor, at the foot of its south wall. The hill is easily visible on Lunar O...
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