Object Name: Moon ~23.4 day

Observation Info

Imaging Info

- Date/Time: 2008-01-31 / 0653 MST

- Camera: Canon 20D

- Location: Fort Collins, CO

- Scope/Lens: TMB 175 f/8

- Limiting Magnitude:

NOTES:

Can't shake the sense that it's Chaco rock art around Kepler.  Cue up the flute of R. Carlos Nakai.

http://www.rcarlosnakai.com/

Copernicus had some detail in the mounds on and off.  If the seeing doesn't improve, I will have to resort to James Nasmyth's approach (book 1874):  construct a plaster model, light to taste and photograph at leisure.

Seeing mostly 4/10 with rare improvements. 

Ephemeris Data:

6.8 = Libration in Latitude (B)
-0.2 = Libration in Longitude (L)
194.9 = Colongitude of the Sun (Co)
-0.4 = Subsolar point Lat (Bo)
255.2 = Subsolar point Long (Lo)
-14.8 = Lunar Long of terminator
37.4% = Sunlit % of Moon's disc
102.8 = Angle of bright limb
14.1 = Angle of polar axis