Moon Puzzle (Mario Lauriano)

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Moon Puzzle

Link: http://www.carmelozannelli.com/site/?p=1796

Moon Puzzle

Link: http://www.carmelozannelli.com/site/?p=1796

The “Moon Puzzle”: from Tycho & Clavius to Hanno & Lyot craters – South/East limb. Personal Observatory of my friend Carmelo Zannelli.

The resulting image is the sum of the total of 15 lunar images (eachone from the stack of about 120 total frames of each single film of a total of about 1200 frames) assembled as a “puzzle” to form the only image that, following the edge lunar, goes from the terminator (with the crater Tycho, on the right of the image) to Clavius, Moretus, the Lunar South Pole and still along the edge of the South-East limb with a myriad of craters until the extreme left of the image, to the lava craters Hanno-h, Jeans-S (those with the bottom of darker color, like the lunar seas).

The variations of seeing spent throughout the shooting session (lasting about two hours) has influenced the resolution reached which, proceeding counterclockwise, from Tycho crater, up to the edge of the South-East limb, has also gradually decreased for the lunar height from the horizon of my shooting site (my personal observatory).

It is fascinating to move along the whole image, opening the image at full resolution (the original one resulting from the Focal-Equivalent / Pixel-size ratio of the camera sensor) and literally going “walking around the Moon”, as if we were there in orbit above it.

Only scruple was the lack of some pieces of the “Moon-Puzzle” due to the defective tracking (lunar tracking) of the equatorial mount of the instrument, which had to be set beforehand because it was not used for some time.

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