South Lunar Pole photo uploaded

[Luis Martinez]

Hi all,
I uploaded an image of the south lunar pole taken last night with an
8" SCT.
Would like to hear your feedback on the confidence level of my
identification of Faustini and Leibnitz Beta.

File Name LMARTINEZ_20090429_0302UT
Name of observer: Luis Martinez
Email address of observer: ( kd7...@gmail.com )
Aperture of telescope: 0.20m
Focal length of telescope: 2032mm
Type of camera used: WATEC 902H2
Camera detector dimensions: 795 x 596
Exposure information: 1/60
Time and date of exposure: 2009-04-29 03:02 UT
AVI procesed with Registax 5
LTVT utilized to assist in feature identification
Location from which exposure was taken: Casa Grande, Arizona
32 deg 54' 06" N / 111 deg 44' 52" W

http://03836013348458263988-a-g.googlegroups.com/web/LMARTINEZ_20090429_0302UT.jpg

[Jim Mosher]

Nicely done, Luis!

The very bright feature next to your Leibnitz Beta label:

http://03836013348458263988-a-g.googlegroups.com/web/LMARTINEZ_20090429_0302UT.jpg

is, I believe, the extreme flank of that mountain that slopes into
Scott. There is considerably more of Leibnitz Beta to the "right" that
is in darkness at this sun angle. The bright patches seen directly
beyond the Leibnitz Beta bright patch should be for the most part the
inner poleward walls of Nobile and Amundsen, and the high ground where
Amundsen and Faustini touch. In the latter area, with the Sun from
this direction, the slopes that appear bright should be those on the
Amundsen side. The side of the ridge sloping into Faustini should be
dark.

On this assumption, the main part of Faustini is the dark area to the
right of the label in your image and in Clif's:

http://03836013348458263988-a-g.googlegroups.com/web/CAshcraft_20090429_0005UT.jpg

with the first bright dot to the right of the dark area in Clif's
being a favorably sloped part of Faustini's inner poleward wall. In
other words, Faustini is mostly to the right of the bright streak
labeled in the two photos.

The distinction between the dark interior of Faustini and the bright
sunlit inner walls of Amundsen and Nobile may be more apparent in the
following images, where the lighting is stronger and a greater
southerly libration rotates the features more onto the disk.

January 4 (Rainer Ehlert):

http://lcross_observation.googlegroups.com/attach/ecf1990ef814a8be/Rainer_Faustini-0001_wvs_labeled_by_JMM.jpg?gda=SSDyy0YAAAABdtaNk75PFAsRRjIdNJf30wwfA6K4k0101e5Rh6driU4_gCSYGQvR529MxJl1Oopx40jamwa1UURqDcgHarKEE-Ea7GxYMt0t6nY0uV5FIQ&view=1&part=2

February 1 (Tom Bash):

http://lcross_observation.googlegroups.com/attach/3c8172f6db424b7d/TBash_200902010355_labeled_by_JMM.jpg?gda=UjGXy0UAAAANWLGdRisVRp3fQRKl4I5RT7Dl9B06x6QiX0_yHWLx9QI7CpKZFCofUrVbVl_ebUuO3f1cykW9hbJ1ju6H3kglGu1iLHeqhw4ZZRj3RjJ_-A&view=1&part=2

If these links don't work, you can find them the group's Index to
Images:

http://groups.google.com/group/lcross_observation/web/index-to-images

-- Jim

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