Astrophotography by Anthony Ayiomamitis

Lunar Image Gallery - S&T Lunar 100

In collaboration with Sky&Telescope Magazine, contributing editor and planetary scientist Charles Wood produced the "Lunar 100" list denoting perhaps the most interesting and instructive lunar features one may undertake in observing and/or imaging our closest celestial neighbour. The list is comprised of a wide variety of features and includes numerous craters (ex. L5 Copernicus, L6 Tycho), mountains (ex. L4 Appenines, L96 Leibnitz), rilles (ex. L29 Aridaeus, L66 Hadley), rays (L85 Langrenus, L93 Dyonisius), basins (ex. L59 Schiller-Zucchius, L73 Smythii) and domes (ex. L89 Valentine). Also, as one progresses sequentially through the list, features of increasing difficulty are encountered which, at times, may require favourable libration. In contrast to the Messier Catalog which may be pursued in its entirety in early spring during a single evening, the Lunar-100 will inevitably require a number of lunations for a complete enumeration from start to finish. Of course, the emphasis is not on how fast one may traverse the complete list but to gain a better understanding and appreciation of our moon and, thereby, our own planet's history.

Note: For further information on the Lunar-100, the interested lunatic is referred to S&T (Apr/2004: 113-120) and/or the analogue online reference available here.

Image Details
L002 - Earthshine
Imaging Details
List Item:
Earthshine

Quadrant:
N/A

Lunar Coordinates:
N/A

Diameter:
0.2719 x Earth

Height:
N/A

Age:
02d 15h 55m

Phase:
08.2°

Diameter:
29.61'

Magnitude:
-7.0

Rukl:
N/A
Date:
Jun 09, 2005
22:36:02 UT+3


Location:
Athens, Greece

Equipment:
AP 160 f/7.5 StarFire EDF
Losmandy G-11 GEM
Canon EOS 300d


Exposure(s):
5.0 sec
ISO 800
RAW Image Format
3072x2048 Image Size
Manual Mode


Software:
Canon FileViewer V1.3.2
Photoshop CS-II


Processing:
RAW to TIFF (16-bit) Conv
Unsharp Masking
Resampling
JPG Compression