Apollo 15 landing site - Hadley Rille

[lukebl]

Here's a quick capture of Hadley Rille, the landing site of Apollo15.

I think I remember Apolo 15 most of all the missions, as it was the first to use the Lunar Rover, travelling over 27 kilometres at up to 12km/h, and the terrain was more dramatic than the other sites. The tip of the arrow markes the exact landing site. To give you a sense of scale, the rille is just 1.2km wide, and the crater in the closeup (Hadley C) is 6km across.

Omegon RC8, 3x TV Barlow, ZWO ASI 290MM Mini Mono camera.

Edited April 4, 2020 by lukebl

[geeklee]

That's a cool image, with really nice detail in Hadley Rille area.  Good inset image too, appreciated.👍

[CraigT82]

Nice work, very clear Rille there... will you try to do the same for the other Apollo sites?

[lukebl]

12 minutes ago, CraigT82 said:

Nice work, very clear Rille there... will you try to do the same for the other Apollo sites?

Thanks. I think I can get it a lot sharper and, yes, it would be nice to capture all other Apollo sites when the lighting is at the right angle.

[MarsG76]

Awesome image....

Pity that we can't image from earth with enough detail to have a hint of the remnants of the mission.

Edited April 4, 2020 by MarsG76

[Les Ewan]

I love looking at landing sites at high power, Hadley is a particularly interesting one.