Waning, 22-day-old moon. The bright, rayed craters are Copernicus (centre), with Kepler to its left & Aristarchus appearing as the small bright spot t

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Waning, 22-day-old moon. The bright, rayed craters are Copernicus (centre), with Kepler to its left & Aristarchus appearing as the small bright spot towards top left. The dark regions or \seas\" are the Mare Imbrium to the east (right) of Aristarch- us & the Oceanus Procellarum south-west of Arist- archus. Tycho is the small prominent crater near the bottom. The arc of the Apennine Mountains stands out near the terminator, forming the south- east limit of the Mare Imbrium; the Apennines stretch over some 720 kilometres & rise to heights of some 6000 metres. Photographed Aug. 30, 1983, Meade 2080 S/C, Ektachrome 64, 1/30 sec."

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Keywords: aristarchus, astronomy, copernicus, cosmology, crater, imbrium, kepler, lunar, mare, moon, oceanus, planetary, procellarum, science, tycho