2025-05-03

• Condition: E5
• Location: Home, Spearfish: 44.49, -103.87

Very crisp night. The view of the moon was incredible and lots of details were popping.

08:47PM

• Target: Mare Serenitatis
• Long: 18.35
• Lat: 27.28
• Type: Sea
• Target: Crater, Posidonius
• Long: 29.99
• Lat: 31.87
• Type: Crater (~7 day)
• Scope: AT102ED
• Setting: 57x, Moon and Sky glow Filter

Three quarters of the mare was cast in bright light. Montes Caucasus and Montes Haemus bordered the mare to the north and south and ran deeply into the terminator. The large crater above Montes Caucasus is Eudoxus with the large-flat crater to the east (left of the sketch) being Posidonius.

Two small valleys could be seen running north to south near the north end of the mare.