Phase: Waxing Gibbous (75.2%)
Location: Home
Date: 2016-09-12
Time: 8:20 PM start; undocumented end time
Equipment: 10" Meade SCT, 40 mm + 30 mm Antares 2" eyepiece
Magnification: x63 + x83
Seeing: not recorded
Transparency: not recorded
Clear sky with only a light wind. First Quarter was 3 days ago at 8:50 AM
Moonset: 2:02 AM Moonrise: 4:58 PM
Sunrise: 6:50 AM Sunset: 7:30 PM
Mare: Mare Hurmorum, Mare Iridum
Craters: Copernicus, Encke, Gassendi + Gassendi A Kepler, Lansberg, Plato, Reinhold, Tycho
There was a large protuberance on the terminus in the area of Mare Iridum. I could not identify the lunar feature that would have been illuminated so well. Maybe the Jura Mountains? |