2025-03-05

• Condition: G5
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

It’s been a while since a moon-observation session. Tonight was unexpectedly clear, and the moon looked crisp.

08:15PM

• Target: Crater, Eudoxus
• Long: 16.22
• Lat: 44.26
• Type: Crater (~7 day)
• Target: Crater, Aristoteles
• Long: 17.32
• Lat: 50.24
• Type: Crater (~7 day)
• Target: Crater, Mitchell
• Long: 20.17
• Lat: 49.76
• Type: Crater (~7 days)
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 165x, Moon and Skyglow Filter

Looks like I forgot to add directions to the sketch. North is to the right and west is up.

Aristoteles is the larger crater to the north and Eudoxus is the larger crater to the south. Mitchell is just to the east of Aristoteles; it had a tiny bright speck in its center. The rims of both craters might have been high, as the shadows emanating towards the terminator were quite evident.