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Anaxagoras crater, rays and the Moons North limb - What\'s Up for March 2010

3/9/2010

 
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Anaxagoras crater, rays and the Moons North limb
February  28th / March 1st  2010  23:20 UT - 00 :35 UT
200 mm Dobsonian Telescope  FL 1,200
8mm TVP eyepiece = 150X

Anaxagoras crater and rays on the Moons North limb


South is up in this sketch because that is the way I viewed it and sketched it. Pastels & Conte on black paper.
















Our beautiful Snow moon was 99 .9 % drenched in the suns light when I went observing on the last day in February 2010.  Along the NW limb several craters were on view in the libration zone, it was my intention to make a sketch of these elusive features. They presented as dark deep long shadows edged with sharp bright lines against the blackness of space. 

However while these were interesting,  my eye was magnetized toward the brightness of
Anaxagoras and its ejecta rays,  giving great form to the area.   Several of these long dark shadow lines were also  on view  on the edge of the limb close to Goldschmidt and Herschel .  It was so visually interesting to observe the contrasts on the limb when the moon was so full, a black and white merry dance of slow movement and rich structure.

Plato never looked so dark and flat ,its black floor absorbing the suns light when most of the surrounding area was throwing it toward my eye. I adored the tiny pure white rim sections singing in the light. My sketch wandered across part of Mare Frigoris  , the area around Plato and includes part of Mons Teneriffe .


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Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east of America most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult in ancient times.

What's Up for March 2010 from Jane Houston Jones 

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