This session was devoted to lunar observing.
Lunar Phase: Waning Gibbous (94.2%)
Q-Day: -5
Moonset: 7:57 AM Moonrise: 9:37 PM
Sunrise: 6:10 AM Sunset: 8:29 PM
Location: Home
Date: 2017-08-09/10
Time: 11:48 PM - 12:52 AM
Equipment: Binoculars 10x30 IS + Binoculars 15x70
Transparency: not recorded
Seeing: not recorded
Mare:
Only part of Mare Crisium could be seen and part of Fecunditatis. All other Mare were readily seen and identified. Sinus Iridium and Sinus Roris were also located.
Craters:
(B) - 2 craters on N shore of Mare Imbrium.
(C) - Grimaldi and Hevelius - these seemed to have moved more easterly than the last time observed.
Tycho and some of its rays also observed.
Mountains:
Although no shadows, cold make out structures of the Haemus and Jura Mountains.
Note:
I did not look at all the features closely.
