From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: March 6, 2009 1:19:51 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: New Luna Image

Hi folks;

First draft and "Hot off the hard drive.."

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Lunar/PlatoN_20090305_205943_L.jpg

Plato, Mare Frigoris and the Lunar North Pole. An odd ball feature is  how the rill / edge of a flow abuts against Fontenelle crater, leaving a vertical dark shadow on the crater rim.

Seeing was much better than average tonight, so I shot 36 gigabytes of close up luna shots using the 2.5x Televue (ffective focal length was 5 meters on the C8). Grasshopper Monochrome 1384x1036 camera in 16 bit mode at 15 fps.

It was -14°C at 8 pm and temp still it's still falling (this is "spring"??). We had snow during the day and winds finally dropping from 70 kmph down to about 20. It cleared up and the 300mb NAM forecast had a nice band of pink (low turbulence") air over us.

I have another movies to work on.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle