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Notes from session S00018


Jupiter

Jupiter
Image
2002-03-01  23:18hUT
CCD Image, 0.3 sec exposure (#18089)
Heavy unsharp marking
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow
  
Jupiter revolution over 1 hour
Image
2002-03-01  23:14 to 00:07hUT
Sequence of CCD Images, 
0.3 sec exposure (#18084 et al)
Heavy unsharp marking
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow
Similar but with light unsharp masking

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Jupiter Moons

Jupiter + Moons
Image
2002-03-01  22:39hUT
CCD Image, 1 sec exposure (#18001)
8"/f10 SCT

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Moon

"Lunar Orbit"
Image
"Apollo-Lander style" animation of 2002-03-16,  02:06 to 02:22h UT
CCD Image, 47 frames at 0.1 sec exposure (#18499 - 18545)
See 1.3 MB Animation  

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Moon (additional images)

Mare Tranquillitatis / Palus Somnii / Macrobius/ Mare Crisium
Image
2002-03-02  
Mosaic of 6 CCD Images, 0.1 sec exposure (#18359-18375)
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow

 

Craters on floor of Mare Tranquillitatis
Image
2002-03-02  00:54 UT
CCD Image 0.1 sec exposure (#18370)

 

Mare Foecunditatis/Mare Nectarius
Image
2002-03-02  
Mosaic of 6 CCD Images, 
0.1 sec exposures (#18440 -18460)

 

Moon 
Image
2002-03-02 02:09h UT
CCD Image, 0.1 sec exposure,   (#18507)
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow
Showing Mare Tranquillitatis (The Sea of Tranquility) to bottom right 
with Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity) lies to the upper left.  

The Large crater between the two Mare is Plinius (diam 48km), 
with Dawes nearby (diam 23km). The bright crater is 
Menelaus (diam 32km). A ray lead northwards into 
Mare Serenitatis passing the crater Bessel  (diam 19 km).  
The smallest visible craters in the image have estimated 
diameters of around 5km.

 

Apollo 17 Landing Site (Taurus-Littrow Valley) 
Image
2002-03-02 02:13h UT
CCD Image, 0.1 sec exposure,   (#18518)
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow
CCD Image showing location of Apollo 17 Landing site in the 
Taurus-Littrow Valley. This lies in the Taurus Range, which forms the 
south-eastern rim of the Serenitatis Basin.
(Zoomed in view)

 

Southern Highlands
Image
2002-03-02  
CCD Image,  cropped & inverted, 0.1 sec exposure (#18468)
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow

 

Copernicus / Sinus Aestuum
Image
2002-03-02  
Mosaic of 4 CCD Images, 0.1 sec exposure (#18401, 18410)
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow

 

  Various Moon Images


2002-03-02, 00:53 UT to 02:22 UT
CCD Images, 0.1 sec exposure, 1x1 binning
8"/f10 SCT with Barlow, operating at f/22
 Original images reduced by 33%, then Sharpened

Image Image
Craters on floor of Mare Tranquillitatis 
(The Sea of Tranquility), (#18370)
(#18540)
Image Image
Mare Tranquillitatis (The Sea of Tranquility), 
Palus Somnii (The Marsh of Sleep)  middle left 
(#18380)
Palus Somnii / Macrobius
 (#18385)
Image Image
(#18390) Tycho (#18395)
 
Image Image
(#18400) Great ray crater Copernicus 
(diam 97km) (#18405)
  
Image Image
Sinus Aestuum (Bay of Heats).
Crater Copernicus to left(#18410)
Craters Atlas and Hercules (#18430)
  
Image Image
Crater Pair Messier and Messier A 
(=W.H. Pickering) on Mare Foecundutatis 
(The Sea of Fertility) (#18444)
(#18450)
  
Image Image
(#18455) (#18475)
  
Image Image
(#18465) ? Schickard Crater (#18470)
  
Image Image
Southern Highlands showing mountain relief 
on limb of moon (#18468)
Oceanus Procellarum
(The Ocean of Storms) (#18480)
  
Image Image
Sinus Roris (The Bay of Dews, lower) and  
Mare Frigoris (The Sea of Cold, upper). 
The Jura Mts are to the right (#18485)
Dark-filled crater Plato (diam 97km) on 
the north edge of Mare Imbrium. 
Tenerife Mts to its lower left  (#18490)
  
Image Image
Lunar Alps on north margin of Mare Imbrium. 
Linear feature is the Alpine Valley
(#18495)
.Haemus Mts and bright crater Memelaus 
(diam 32 km) on edge of Mare Serenitatis. 
Bright crater in bottom right is Manilius
(#18500)
  
Image Image
(#18507) .(#18518)

 

Moon Images from other observing sessions :
 Moon CCD Images 2001-09-29
 Moon CCD Images 2001-10-03

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