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Top 10 Lunar Features


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Just starting out on lunar observation and wondered what your all-time favourite features are. They could be visually striking ones, like Crater Clavius or Rupes Recta, or significant in other ways like the Apollo 11 landing site. Your nominations, please.

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1. Number 17 Schröter's Valley

2. Number 15 Rupus Recta

3. Number 35 Triesnecker Rilles

4. Number 58 Rheita Valley

5. Number 83 Plato

6. Number 9 Clavius

7. Alpine Valley

8. Werner X formation

9. All Apollo landing sites

10. Rima Sheepshanks

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I simply love Sinus Iridum and the Jura Mountains. Isolated peaks such as Piton and Montes Tenerife or Spitzbergen.

For a real challenge try Lamont in the Mare Tranquillitatis, this is a very flat crater that can only be seen when the sun is low in the lunar sky. To me it looks like a spider that had been stepped on.

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... not picking the easier ones eh Doc? Check out the "Lunar 100", there are lots of posts and resources on the web. There is something for everyone and with all sizes of scopes.... even Doc's 16"!

Cheers, the moon can provide a lifetime of observing on its own.

PEterW

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My favorites (in no special order):

Sorry there's so many, but... there's so many! :(

Albategnius and Klein

Hypatia

Torricelli

Cleomedes

Archimedes

Pythagoras

Langrenus/Vendelinus/Petavius/Furnerius (on terminator)

the 'sluffing' between Manilius and Hyginus

Serpentine Ridge

Capuanus

Bullialdus

Fra Mauro/Bonpland/Parry/Guericke under a low light angle

Orontius/Huggins/Nasireddin/Miller

Hippalus Rilles

Copernicus

sunrise over Mons Rumker

Aristarchus Plateau

Bailly

Letronne

Kepler/Encke under a low light angle

Hesiodus A

Eddington/Russel/Struve

Sirsalis Rille

Darwin Rilles

peaks in northern Mare Imbrium

Gardner Megadome

:)

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Not a lifetime Wayne, just a few years of intensive lunar study (addiction :p).

Thanks Talitha - I have to admit that the Moon is my second favourite rock (behind the one we're on!) - and I'm looking forward to my own lunar study ;)!

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