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Mare Nectaris and Sinus Asperitatis region, 9/19/2015, Darren Erickson

Mare Nectaris and Sinus Asperitatis region, 9/19/2015

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Got out the prime focusing webcam for the first time in quite awhile to capture the Mare Nectaris and Sinus Asperitatis region. Includes the craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina, Fracastorius, Beaumont, Capella, Kant, Tacitus (barely,) Polybius, Rossi, Guadibert, Isidorus, Capella, Toricelli, Hypatia (barely.) Also most of Rupes Altai. Sadly, didn't capture either Apollo 11 or Apollo 16 sites, just out of range to the West and North respectively. Maybe next time! On the postives, though, I really appreciate how the stacking really pulled out the differentiation of Theophilus' peaks and also the ray and contrast structure of Nectaris. There are artifacts north and northeast of Theophilus caused by either dead pixels or image train spotting; the stacking made those a little worse, actually.

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Mare Nectaris and Sinus Asperitatis region, 9/19/2015, Darren Erickson