MAY 2ND - JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH POLE

[paulastro]

I had a somewhat brief Lunar session a few hours ago, and only realised when I was indoors comparing  various maps and atlases to the images that I had taken that I had been to the south pole!  My main references I looked at were the Sky and Telescope laminated map of the Moon and the Cambridge  Photographic Moon Atlas.  The easiest route to follow on any lunar chart is from Clavius, SE to Moretus, immediately S to Short, SW to Newton and then SE again to Malapert.  This S pole is then a bit further to the S.  Bear in mind if you try this that the foreshortening affects are more the further S you go.  In the Cambridge Atlas, Section 41 shows the S pole region with some excellent photographs.  I had great fun for an hour or so comparing the Cambridge photos with my  crop of the  S polar region. 

The photo was taken at 8.33 pm, single frame, SW 120ED, Olympus E-M5 Mk11, 1/200 sec at 400asa. The larger scale pic is a crop from the full disk pic.

 

 

[BRADLEY 1953]

Nice one Paul,  especially first image.   Cheers  Chris.