Mare Crisium afocal images

[george7378]

Last night was a lovely calm night, and the near-full Moon presented shadows on a region I have not yet explored - Mare Crisium. It is a fabulously smooth surface with some nice small craterlets, and there is an interesting small chain of mountains just pushing into the sea close to the limb. There are also some fantastic rounded hills, which really make you feel as if you are flying above it when the shadows are right - I could see the shadows varying from the bottom to the top of the hill, giving it an amazing 3D appearance. Here are some images of the sea, and the surrounding area, including one annotated with the features that stood out in particular to me:

[kris h]

Excellent lunar images George

I just had a look on the full moon atlas the biggest crater in the mare

is called crater picard 23km

clear skies

[bish]

Great pics. The last time I looked at Mare Crisium it was on the edge of the terimator and the mountains looked like they were floating in space. Tried to draw it but am no artist.

[nightfisher]

lovely image