TACos,

The seeing wasn't nearly as good as it was Tuesday night, but I still had a fun time with some lunar observing. I was using my 6 inch Meade Newt on a German mount, and mostly a 9mm Optica b/c ortho for 135.5x and a 6mm Vixen Lanthenum for 203x.

As usual, the surface of the moon was stunning, but I was struck by a few things. The walled plain Clavius has a number of craters on it's floor, but tonight two of the craters were easily visible, and it gave the plain the appearance of a face with the craters as two hollow eyes. Quite stunning really. Rupes Recta, (what a funny name) formerly known as the Straight Wall, was casting a nice shadow as was the little crater Birt. Oh no! I should have looked for Rima Birt. It could have been there, I didn't notice. :-(

I also spent a little time admiring Eratosthenes and the Appenines leading up to it. Between Eratosthenes and Rupes Recta were what I assume to be mountainas. They were casting triangular shadows which looked like little elf hats. They were in an area with few prominant craters, so they caught my attention.

I'm sorry it was raining last night, I was looking forward to examining Ptolemaus, Alphonsus and Arzachel. Guess I'll have to wait until next lunation. I hope you folks had fun at Houge.