Image © 2008 Dan Laszlo     Email name*: Laszlo_D

 

Object Name: Moon ~12.8 day

Observation Info

Imaging Info

- Date/Time: 2008-02-18/ 2140 MST

- Camera: Canon 20D

- Location: Fort Collins, CO

- Scope/Lens: TMB 175 f/8, 1400mm

- Limiting Magnitude:

 - Optical path: Prime focus
- Seeing: - Filter(s):
- Transparency: - ISO Setting/Film: ISO 100
- Temp./Wind: - Exposure time, #: 1/400s

NOTES:

The visual Moon had a chain of oddities. The long crater Schiller, Reiner Gamma, and the dome field Rumker. Only Schiller is obvious in this shot, must revisit the others. Counting down to eclipse day. RAW to TIFF in DPP, adjusted in Photoshop.

 

Ephemeris Data:
-2.5 = Libration in Latitude (B)
4.4 = Libration in Longitude (L)
 = Colongitude of the Sun (Co)
0.1 = Subsolar point Lat (Bo)
28.5 = Subsolar point Long (Lo)
-61.5 = Lunar Long of terminator
95.6% = Sunlit % of Moon's disc
288.6 = Angle of bright limb
12.9 = Angle of polar axis

 


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