MOON - VESTA, Aug 23, 07



Moon, Aug 23,
0h UTC

coords: 17 24 s 28 17
long trmntr: w 27 385d
sin cent long: -0.46
ecc ell: 0.923
dist: 245 756 mi / 395 505 km
diam: 30.2'
illum: 69.2%

Features:
N- Reinhold, Copernicus + craterlets near Stadius (ruin),
Gay Lussac, Pytheas, Lambert + R (ruin), La Hire,
Zirkel Ridge + lavas, Helicon, Leverrier, N Limb (++)
Libration: w 4.68d, n 7.34d
at 0h trmntr xing Sinus Iridum

S- Lansberg + elevs S, Lubiniezky, Bullialdus, Kies +
lava domes, Hesiodus + rille, Mercator + rupes
at 0h trmntr xing Campanus and Longomontanus

Moon trav 11.618d @ 0.484 d/h

VESTA: 16 27 50 s 20 31
7.1 mag, trav 42"/h
Vesta is ca. 1.0 deg SE of Psi Scorpii.

Clear Skies,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539

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