Moon Age 11.7

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Date & Time:	May 18 2016, 22:37 JST(+0900), mosaic of 11 flames
Optical:	Kasai 20cm (7.9") Newtonian (NERO-200DX) (f=1200mmm, F6.0)
	Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera:	CELESTRON Skyris445C with IDAS IR-cut filter
Location:	Hitachi city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings:	30 flames/sec.×6sec., Exp....1/120sec
	150 flames stacked each & Wavelet process with Registax6

This image shows you a 11.7-aged moon before the full moon culminates a little past 8 pm. The moon in this age has the terminator at the Imbrium, MARE in west region. It is best time to see the distributed tiny craters in the lunar sea. More, the rays of major craters of Tycho in southern mountain region and Copernicus in central region begin to develop; you may feel glare for them through telescope.

¶ Geocentric distance: 405,900 km, Distance from observed location: 401,500 km

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