MOON - VESTA, May 25, 07



Moon, May 25
0h UTC

coords: 11 08 n 05 16
cent long trmntr: w 7.705d
sin long: -0.134
ecc ell: 0.975
dist: 249 047 mi / 400 802 km
diam: 29.8'
illum: 61%

Features:
N- Sommering, Pallas, Murchison, Triesnecker
+ rilles, Ukert + graben, Conon, Hadley, Bradley
rilles, Autolycus, Aristillus, Cassini, Spitzbergen Mts
Libration: e 5.12d n 0.815d
at 0h trmntr xing Plato

S- Flammarion, Ptolemaeus,Alphonsus chain to
Miller/Nasreddin/Huggins...trmntr should clear
Rupes Recta (!) at 00:23 UTC
at 0h trmntr xing N Rupes Recta

Moon trav 10.96d @ 0.457 d/h

VESTA: 16 38 28 s 13 56 26
5.5 mag, trav 35"/h
ca. 3 deg South of Zeta (13) Oph

Clear Skies,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539

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