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  • Stargazing News - October 15th, 2024

    From CJ@21:2/156 to All on Monday, October 14, 2024 06:51:14
    Tuesday October 15, 2024

    Grimaldi Graces the Edge (all night)

    The dark-floored basin named Grimaldi is a prominent foreshortened oval
    located near the western edge of the moon. It is just south of the moon's equator and below, or lunar southwest of, the large, dark patch of Oceanus Procellarum, the Sea of Storms. The 108 mile (175 km) diameter basin is easy
    to see using your unaided eyes and through binoculars and telescopes. On Tuesday, October 15 the terminator on the waxing gibbous moon will fall just
    to the west of the crater, accentuating its complex, pitted rim and some
    subtle wrinkle ridges on the basalts of its eastern floor. The 14 mile (22 km) wide fresh crater named Grimaldi B on the basin's northern edge is visible under magnification. Grimaldi will be fully illuminated from Wednesday night onward.


    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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