East of Sinus Iridum

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eso_eso9903e January 15th, 1999

Credit: ESO/D. Baade

A series of short exposures through a near-infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT), i.e. about 5 days before New Moon (24.3 days "old"). It displays a view of the plains near the Moon''''s north-east rim, just eastwards of Sinus Iridum (the large crater in the shadows at the upper right), on the rim of which the crater Bianchini is located. The crater just below the centre is Mairan and the one about halfway between these two and of about the same size is Sharp. Several 0.1 sec exposures were made through a near-infrared filtre (856 nm; FWHM 14 nm) with small offsets were recombined (to cover the gaps between the individual CCD''s); otherwise, the image is raw.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9903e/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Moon Sinus Iridum
Subject - Solar System
Planet > Satellite

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale MPG-2.2m (WFI) Infrared (Near-IR) 856.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Grayscale
Eso_eso9903e_1280
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ID
eso9903e
Subject Category
A.1.4  
Subject Name
Moon, Sinus Iridum
Credits
ESO/D. Baade
Release Date
1999-01-15T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9903e/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
Instrument
WFI
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Near-IR
Central Wavelength
856
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
3000.0, 2388.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso9903e
Metadata Date
2009-01-20T10:50:40+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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