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The Lunar 100 list contains a selection of the Moon's 100 most interesting regions, craters, basins, mountains, rilles and domes. For more details on the list, see http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Lunar+100

On the 12th May 2008 I took a photo of the moon Moon 12th May 2008 phase 58% 

This page contains crops from this image, magnified them by 1.4x. I have added them in order of latitude to help locate them in the original image.

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L18: Mare Serenitatis. Notice the dark areas around the edges showing differing geological composition

L41: Bessel crater ray. Bessel is the largest crater within Mare Serenitatis. The origin of the ray is unknown.

L71: Sulpicius Gallus. Small crater on SW side of the maria. A large cleft runs from the crater, along the circumference of the maria (NW of crater), part of which is just visible in this image.

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L29: Aridaeus Rille (see web cam image) Long linear garben. It is over 300km long and is thought to have been formed when a section of the moon sank between two parallel fault lines.

L50: Cayley Plains (immediately south of L29) This is a smooth plane just like the dark maria except that this plain is light.

L63: Julius Caesar, Boscovich (above L29) Boscovich (left) is one of the darkest spots on the moon. Julius Caesar (right) also contains a dark area towards the north.

 

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L45: Maurolycus. (see web cam image) Region of saturation cratering. One of the grandest walled plains on the moon. The height of the west wall is 4500m. The east side may be even higher. The central peak is also very tall.

 

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Date 12th May 2008
Telescope 250mm F4.8 Newtonian Reflector with MPCC coma corrector with 90mm aperture mask
Filter Red
Detector CCD using red filter
Single frame
Exposure 0.08 seconds
Software CCDstack & Photoshop