Lunar Phase: First Quarter (51.8%)
Q-Day: 0
First Quarter: 4:00 AM
Moonrise: 12:12 PM
Sunrise: 6:21 AM Sunset: 8:06 PM
Location: Home
Date: 2021-04-20
Time: 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM
Equipment: 10” Meade SCT, 4.7 mm eyepiece with x2 Barlow
Magnification: x1060
Transparency: not recorded
Seeing: not recorded
Just started to identify where I was on the lunar surface when our grandson William and his parents arrived. As he arrived, I had located Stadius. After showing him the crater and explaining its features, he used the hand controller to look for craters that interested him. They left around 8:30 PM.
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My greatest success this evening? Apollo 16 landing site!! It was in a relatively “flat” area surrounded by a ring of craters. Beginning at the north and going clockwise: |
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Alfraganus was also located while looking for Albulfeda.
NOTE: Discovered afterwards that Apollo 16 landed on the Cayley Plains.