In the first place, it can be hard just to get a clear shot of the moon. For the past two nights now, I’ve had to dodge clouds and snap quick shots through sucker holes just to continue this lunation. And it’s January; the weather’s supposed to be cool and dry! But, it’s not too bad; the weather gives me a chance to review what I’ve done so far, and that review gave me the chance to correct a couple of mistakes that have crept into the previous evenings’ moon maps.
I’ve replaced the annotated moon maps for days seven and eight of this lunation because of a few errors that had crept in. Turns out there is no crater named Bodin (it’s Godin), and I had inadvertently swapped the names of two maria (Fecunditatis and Tranquillitatis). Now that I do the mapping with North up, it’s a lot easier to tell where I am, so I can actually concentrate on what’s there!
Tonight’s 9-day-old moon appears below, followed by the moon map, followed by the replacement maps, followed by the gallery. All the extra time with the books finally enabled me to figure out which two craters are responsible for the enormous twin ray system in the SE corner of the moon: Stevinus A and Furnerius A (that is, the closest small craters to those larger, named craters).
Day 7 below:
Day 8 below:
And the gallery:
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