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[CHnuschti]

Sinas domes

 

Maybe less known, but it's a distinct bunch. Again, they pop out themselves without prior knowledge by looking at the NASA previews alone.
Continuing with my 110/660 @110x and 145x, nice seeing, in the middle of the morning, paid well off. Needed the terminator close by.

 

Overview on bottom for 19.03.25 02UT. In the GLR dome list there are plenty of them, 1 to 37, you get the picture. 11 of them as "verified", those eleven are marked in this LROC overview.
Select in the list on the left, then its highlighted in the map.

 

Sinas Number (in the GLR list above)
LAT / LON
1
+10.55
+33.03

4
+11.88
+32.23

5
+10.78
+33.90

8
+10.72
+31.95

9
+10.60
+31.05

10
+11.37
+31.37

11
+10.72
+31.88

12
+10.83
+32.32

28
+07.47
+31.37

30
+10.08
+30.52

37
+10.60
+33.88

 

What I've seen:

 

Sinas 1: the most obvious.
Sinas 12: just left of it, also obvious
Sinas 8 (and 11): again slightly left of it, less evident, but still well in with stillstand seeing. A pair as per list.
Sinas 10: a bit above it, also evident.
Sinas 9: south of it. Not very depictable, but it's huge, biggest of all. Pushes through fairly well due to the light shadow on the east, leaves well the impression, how big it is.
Sinas ?: Just popped out secondwise, the faintest of all. But it's not in the GLR list
Jansen H: seen it for some milliseconds, congrats.

 

Sinas 30: did not notice it / pay attention, but might be depictable. Also huge like Nr. 9

 

Up to one, all what I've seen belongs to the "verified" ones, so obviously I also can confirm it to be verified, I've set up the map after the observation.

 

So still well to overlook without being overwhelmed like in the Marius hills.

 

regards

 

EDIT:

The Wiki article of Sinas has a picture from Apollo 8 showing some of them. I think the splitted 8+11 is also detectable. Also the size of Sinas 9, it's bigger than Sinas himself.

 

 

 

Edited by CHnuschti, 19 March 2025 - 03:15 PM.