Double Reaumur Ray

by Bill Arnett


As I type this there is a *double* sunrise ray on the floor of crater Reaumur (Rukl 44). I first noticed the rays at about 8:40 PST when they were very thin. But alas, the Moon is setting for me now and the seeing has become too bad to see anything anymore. If any of you are a few hours west of me now take a look!

The rays almost perfectly trisect the crater. As usual they appear to come from low spot in the eastern wall of Reaumur. The whole western rim is alight but the whole crater floor is dark except for two tiny thin lines of nearly equal length which cross it nearly completely. Very cool!