Moon Age 14.1 (The Full Moon)

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Date & Time:	Sep 19 2013, 22:53 JST(+0900), mosaic of 6 flames
Optical:	BORG 60ED with Televue PowerMate2.5× (f=875mmm, F14.6)
	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....1/200sec
	150 flames stacked each & Wavelet process with Registax6

Around the time of full moon, sunlight shines the lunar surface in almost perpendicular. We can hardly detect the subtle unevenness of mountain ranges or large craters. And the most characteristic feature of the full moon is the white "ray" spread from several major craters radially. Among them, the ray of Tycho crater in southern (upper part of the image) region has been extraordinary developed. This image shows you that the Tycho's ray has stretched almost crossing the lunar disk.

¶ Geocentric distance: 375,100 km, Distance from observed location: 369,900 km

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