Nice quickie with the moon

[Whistlin Bob]

Had a cheeky 45 mins before bed tonight, taking notes as I went...

Lined up on Arcturus.
Tried to split Izar, bit more elongated
Moved onto Castor- easy peasy!
Tried Epsilon Lyra- tighter pair were a bit tricky in the zoom, maybe not dark enough and too low.
Then settled on the moon with 4mm nirvana...
Montes Alpes throwing spectacular shadows. The canyon starting at Trouvelot perfectly illuminated, with the northern wall shining brightly.
Archimedes like a black hole, but with the eastern wall lit up gloriously
Montes Appeninus just a huge area of texture
Cassini beautifully illuminated
Moving up to Ptolomeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel- loads of texture, crater floors just coming into view. Alphonsus partially illuminated with lots of texture, the central peak casting a spike of a shadow on the far crater wall, terracing showing up beautifully.
Floor of Arzachel completely black, but the central peak standing out brilliantly and the back wall with even better terracing.
Walther another highlight. Counted 12 craterlets in the floor.
Miller/Higgins/Drontius a craggy mess of overlapping impacts. Imaging hiking there in one sixth gravity!
Curtius really nice with lots of detail on the crater floor.
Southern Highlands a bundle of illuminated overlapping rings around black crater floors.

Back to the double double. Quite easy now 😀

Edited May 8, 2022 by Whistlin Bob

[niallk]

Nice one 👍