These pictures were taken with 8"
MEADE LX10 and MEADE ETX90-EC telescope using eyepiece projection
technique with an EPSON PC3000Z digital camera. (click to obtain
a larger picture). The Moon cycle is 29 days long
Reliefs are seen only in the neighbourhood of the shadow
terminator.
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Movie from the
pictures of this array (450x450 .GIF format 761K)
Full moon
Picture taken 10/31//2001 in the same conditions as above. No more relief is visible. Only alternating bright continental regions and dark oceanic regions are visible. Youngest craters are corresponding to white dots. A few craters are surrounded by bright streaks composed of materials ejected when they were formed.
Librations
Seen from earth, the moon is rocking on East-West and South-North axis. This phenomenon called libration gives the opportunity to see 59% of the moon surface from earth. The movie below shows the effect of the South-North libration on the aspect of the south lunar pole
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This 3D view is an anaglyph
composed with two pictures captured on 01/12/1998 et le 10/312001.
The difference of libration between both pictures is 8.8 degrees
in East-West direction.
Try with your 3D glasses ....
