Tag: Mare Imbrium

Cold Temp Telescope Tips, Pre-dawn Planets, Lunar Libration Shows Seas, and the Waxing Moon Passes the Football!

This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the entire Mare Imbrium region. On Thursday and Friday this week, the terminator will bisect the huge region, casting in stark relief the ringed mountain ranges to the east: Montes Alpes, Montes Caucasus, and Montes Apenninus. On Saturday night, the terminator will highlight the curved Montes Jura…
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A Waxing Moon in Evening, Planets Appear after Sunset and Midnight, Minor Planets Dance with Deep Sky Delights, and Nova News!

This mosaic of images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is centred on Mare Imbrium, the huge and ancient impact basin that covers much of the moon’s northern Earth-facing hemisphere. The mountains around its right (lunar west) edge are highlighted around the first quarter phase. Sinus Iridium and the curved Montes Jura are prominent about…
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