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Lunar North pole


Lunar North pole

Craters of the North Polar Region
1 Anaxagoras 51 km 12 Lovelace 54 km
2 Barrow 93 km 13 Main 46 km
3 Byrd 94 km 14 Meton 123 km
4 Challis 56 km 15 Mouchez 83 km
5 C. Mayer 38 km 16 Peary 75 km
6 Epigenes 55 km 17 Rozhdestvenskiy 177 km
7 Florey 69 km 18 Scoresby 56 km
8 Gioja 41 km 19 Sylvester 58 km
9 Goldschmidt 121 km 20 Timaeus 33 km
10 Hermite 111 km 21 W. Bond 156 km
11 Lenard 48 km
Sketching and Equipment:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper 9”x 12”, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils, white and black medium charcoal pencils and a blending stump.
Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian and 6 mm eyepiece 241x, equatorial platform
Date: 09-11-2017, 06:00 – 09:00 UT
Temperature: 16°C (60° F)
Transparency: poor, hazy, Seeing: Antoniadi V
Lunation 20 days, Illumination: 75 %
Frank McCabe






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