APRIL 3RD - WAXING CRESCENT - SIR ISAAC NEWTON & JAMES SHORT

[paulastro]

I was out early last evening to observe the Moon before it was dark enough to observe the Venus/Pleiades conjunction.  It was a fairly good S libration, and among the confusion of detail at the S limb turned out to be Sir Isaac Newton with James Short alongside him.  In the close-up, Short is slightly SW of Moretus with Newton immediately to the West of Short.  I must admit, it seems unfair that such a great astronomical icon like Newton should be relegated to a 58 mile diameter crater in a rather obscurely located position at latitude 76 degrees South.   Pity poor Malapert who's crater is even more obscure even further S at 84.9 degrees and hardly recognisable in the photo.

The single frame below was taken with the SW 120ED, Olympus E-M5 Mk11 at 7.35 pm, 1/400 sec at 400 asa.  The crop is from the same frame.