This morning’s moon followed an all-too-familiar pattern: too low in the sky (18° elevation), with too many clouds between me and it. Here’s the image, for what it’s worth. You can probably make out Gassendi, the one large crater in the south, near the terminator, riding at the top of the Mare Humorum. A little further south, I suspect that we’re looking at the intriguing topography of Hainzel and its companion crater, but the image is pretty grainy, and it’s hard to tell, exactly. What do you think?
Just north of the equator, you can see Kepler, and can probably make out that it’s a crater with a ray system. Just south of there is Encke, another fine crater…
I am crossing my fingers that the clouds will be kind tomorrow morning.
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