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Sliver Moon Map

Along the very edge of the visible moon I have marked some of the visible craters/rilles on the moon.
It is hard to match the edge due to libration changes. I had to work backwards matching stellarium over 3 days.

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Feb 22 at 3:08pmWeb
Show threadHolgerFeb 22
@appagalcrochet I know the struggle. I often sketch the moon, as it appears in the eye piece. Stellarium is not a good choice for identifying lunar objects. I recommend a tool named lvtl lunar terminator visualisation tool. It renders the image based on a digital terrain model and your position on earth. Its a bit old and dusty, but once you familiarized a bit, its super cool. Just a mess to get a good terrain dataset. If you are on Linux, it goes with wine without probs.
https://github.com/fermigas/ltvt/wiki/files/LTVT_v0_21_4_full_version.zip
Show threadDobviewsFeb 22
@guineasofbayeux I used my globe map to mark out the actual craters, but I used the pictures from the past 3 days to reference back to each day to match the terrain. Once I found the edge of Schumacher I knew where I was. 🤪
Show threadBluejayFeb 22
@appagalcrochet This is fantastic work!🤩