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Moon 18 Dec 2002

The image above has clickable areas corresponding to pages having higher resolution images from that area. Labels in white are mare names while black labels indicate craters and other features. Some craters such as Clavius are difficult to distinguish in this Full Moon image, they look much better with the terminator nearby

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Around Plato (Montes Alpes, Vallis Alpes, Goldschmidt, Sinus Iridum, Pythagoras)
Mts Apenninus (Mts Caucasus, Archimedes)
Around Copernicus (Montes Carpatus, Eratosthenes, Kepler)
Around Aristarchus (Struve, Repsold)
Around Grimaldi (Byrgius, Mts Rook, Hevelius)
Around Ptolemaeus (Alphonsus, Arzachel, Rupes Recta)
Around Gassendi (Hippalus, Doppelmayer, Mare Humorum)
Around Schickard (Phocylides, Schiller)
Around Posidonius (Atlas, Lacus Mortis) NEW
Around Theophilus (Cyrillus, Catharina, Piccolomini, Rupes Altai) NEW
Around Tycho (Clavius, South Pole)

Lunar Mosaics

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	Waxing crescent Moon - 10 Apr 2005 How: C8 at f/10 and ToUCam Pro - mosaic of 10 images, each image a stack of 25-40 frames - wavelet filtered Lunar data: 10 Apr 2005 at 19:05 UT (day 2 Moon) - Illumination 4,4% - colongitude 290° The Moon less than two days after New Moon (and the hybrid solar eclipse in the Pacific area) Full resolution 1278 x 2100 pixels
	Waxing crescent Moon - 05 Feb 2003 How: C8 at f/6 and ToUCam Pro - mosaic of 5 images, each image stack of 30 frames - wavelet filtered Lunar data: 05 Feb 2003 at 17:40 UT (day 4 Moon) - Illumination 17,6% - colongitude 318° Full resolution 1200 x 2000 pixels
	Waxing crescent Moon - 31 Jan 2001 First tries at making lunar mosaics with the webcam. Version 1 (complete, click on thumbnail to view): How: C5 at f/6,3 and Vesta Pro - mosaic of 6 single frames Version 2 (terminator only): Half resolution 628 x 1175 pixels - Full resolution 1250 x 2350 pixels How: C5 at f/10 and Vesta Pro - mosaic of 7 images, each image stack of 6-8 frames - wavelet filter in Registax Lunar data: 31 Jan 2001 at 18:04 and 17:20 UT (day 6 Moon) - Illumination 41,4% - colongitude 358°
	Waxing gibbous Moon - 02 May 2001 This mosaic partly succeeded despite clouds and poor seeing. However I missed a few parts of the disc ruining an attempt to make a complete image of the Moon. Reprocessed with Registax in Dec 2002 How: C8 at f/6 and Vesta Pro - mosaic of 6 images, each stacked from 6-8 frames - wavelet filter Lunar data: 02 May 2001 at 22:30 UT (day 9 Moon) - Illumination 74,6% - colongitude 29°
	Waxing gibbous Moon - 24 March 2002 This was an overly optimistic attempt to make a very large mosaic by working at f/10. But during the exposures a thickening cirrus cover made the exposures more and more dark and I initially gave up on processing the mosaic. In Dec 2002 it was eventually completed although it had to be reduced in scale to look fair How: C8 at f/10 and Vesta Pro - mosaic of 40 (!) images, each image stack of 3-5 frames - wavelet filtered Lunar data: 24 March 2002 at 20:20 UT (day 10 Moon) - Illumination 78,9% - colongitude 42° Half resolution 1400 x 1700 pixels
	Waxing gibbous Moon - 13 Feb 2003 How: C8 at f/6 and ToUCam Pro - mosaic of 15 images, each image stack of 25 frames - wavelet filtered Lunar data: 13 Feb 2003 at 22:03 UT (day 11 Moon) - Illumination 88.8% - colongitude 57° Full resolution 1875 x 2050 pixels
	Full Moon (almost) - 18 Dec 2002 How: C8 at f/6 and Vesta Pro - mosaic of 18 images, each image stack of 10 frames - wavelet filtered Lunar data: 18 Dec 2002 at 22:40 UT (day 13 Moon, 21 hours before Full) - Illumination 99,3% - colongitude 84° Full resolution 2000 x 2000 pixels
	Waning Gibbous Moon - 22 Nov 2002 The libration was favourable for details at the lower left limb such as Mare Orientale How: C8 at f/6 and Vesta Pro - mosaic of 18 single frames - wavelet filtered - denoised Lunar data: 22 Nov 2002 at 23:45 UT (day 17 Moon, 3 days after Full) - Illumination 91,9% - colongitude 128° Full resolution 2000 x 2000 pixels

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