Sinus iridium? Please help me identify if this location is correct

[Sam Baker]

Please could someone tell me if the brown patch which I highlighted is sinus iridium.

Thank you

Sam

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[ronin]

From the 2 craters more or less in the middle just left of the shadow I would say you have highlighted Mere Serenitatis.

My map if upside down appears to match the image and that is what I get.

If so then Sinus Iridium is still in shadow.

Sort of the brown patch and head straight across into the darkness.

If I am correct (50/50 maybe less) then to the right of you highlighted patch is Mere Imbrium, still in shadow, and Sinus Iridium would be the lower right of portion Imbrium. So the last bit to be see before the full moon.

[Joseki]

Just learning myself, but I reckon that's the Mare Serenitatis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Serenitatis

though I'm still getting confused with lunar map conventions and flipping left right, up down..

Looks similar to a photo of a 6 day moon in the Phillip's Moon Observer's guide.

oh, another person replied - so probably we're right. 

[ronin]

Sounds like we were both turning a moon map upside down and left to right. Damn confusing.

I ended up finding 2 craters to match the ones upper centre and decided they were Theophilus and Cyrillus then reading things upside down to work out the shaded area.

The Apollo 16 site should be on the terminator on the image.

[goodricke1]

Yep, the Mare Serenitatis

[Mad Taff]

Looks like Mare Serenitatis to me too. I think Sinus Iridium will be better visible tonight and tomorrow night. It's found in the northern part of the moon on the northern - NW-edge of Mare Imbrium. Get a map of the moon off the internet. You should find it.

[Helen]

+1 for Mare Serenitatis 

It sounds like you need the Virtual Moon Atlas http://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start  It allows you to mirror and/or flip so that you can match what you're seeing in the scope/finder/bino/mark 1 eyeball   There's a neat app for iphone called Moon Atlas which is also very useful

Helen

[Sam Baker]

When I first looked at the moon I thought yes this is amazing but didn't look at it as an actual location, then reading about the chinese moon landing in a few days I looked into it and couldn't work out whether I got bay of rainbows or not. But it totally changed my interest and made me aware of the actual place as something more than just the moon, its an object which can be defined into different sections and navigated just as you can navigate the earth. Amazing really. Thanks for your help guys. Next time I get my scope out I'll be looking at the moon in a totally different manner

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[Stainlesssteve]

Have a look on Google Earth moon view.

[AndyWB]

I use the iPhone 'Moon Globe' app - after all, if you're looking at the moon, dark adaption is out the window anyway! It's quite good 'cos it can flip left-right or up-down, although it's terminator is a bit 'soft'.