These two overlapping images (click to enlarge) show Mare Nectaris (sea of nectar). Acquisition date: September 12, 2006.
Like Imbrium, the Nectaris lunar sea was created by an impact (ca. 100 million years before the Imbrium impact);
mare filling took place later, as the flooded crater Fracastorius (bottom of image at right) testifies.
The Altai Escarpment (large semicircular ridge in left image) was created during the impact.
Ptolemaeus.
Acquisition date: May 13, 2008. DMK, yellow filter.
A famous row of craters: Ptolemaeus (note it's hexagonal shape), Alphonsus, Arzachel.
At right: Albategnius.
Image at right: Ptolemaeus on April 23, 2010.
Theophilus and Sinus Asperitatis.
Acquisition date: September 12, 2006.
Theophilus is a famous crater. Note several ghost craters.
Mare Cognitum.
Several spacecraft landed in Mare Cognitum, like Apollo 12 and 14. The large eroded crater left of the center is Fra Mauro.
Acquisition date: June 5, 2006.
Hippalus rilles.
Acquisition date: June 6, 2006.
See LPOD for a beautiful image of these rilles.
Mare Humorum and Hippalus rilles.
Acquisition date: April 16, 2008. DMK, IR filter.
Mare Crisium.
Note that this lunar sea has a hexagonal shape.
Acquisition date: May 9, 2008 (evening twilight). DMK, yellow filter.
Rupes Recta.
(click to enlarge) Acquisition date: May 6, 2006. Used Barlow.
The Rupes Recta (straight wall) is well visible under low light illumination.
Lacus Mortis.
Acquisition date: September 12, 2006. See also this LPOD.
Mare Tranquillitatis.
Acquisition date: September 12, 2006.
It is in the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Silence) that man first set foot on another world.
South Pole.
Acquisition date: October 13, 2006.
The South Pole is heavily cratered. Eye-catcher is the crater Moretus (diam. 111 km) with it's large central peak.
Moretus.
Acquisition date: December 18, 2007. DMK with Barlow, orange filter.
Fantasy (but it happened, long ago!).
(click to enlarge)
What happens if a 50 km asteroid slams into the moon at 20 kilometres per second?
Read an expert's opinion on LPOD!
Moon map, with 'flying over the poles' (Flash version).
This image shows a (downscaled) shaded relief map of the moon.
The original map was retrieved from here (ftp) (courtesy of the USGS).
This USGS map is a equirectangular projection. I added grid lines and converted it to Flash format,
such that it is viewable as a sperical panorama.
Click on the image to open the panorama. In such a panorama you can view in any direction.
Use the mouse or left/right/up/down arrows. Use SHIFT to zoom in, CTRL to zoom out.
I made this panorama because I wanted to 'fly over the poles' in order to get more insight
into the distribution of craters there.
Note that the Virtual Moon Atlas 4 does not support such 'flying over the poles'.
Planets, stars, etc.
The "seeing" over Holland
Wide field astrophotography (low budget)
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