More Afocal Astrophotography

My second attempt at afocal astrophotography was of a very striking half-moon towards the end of November 2009. The pick of the photos is this one:


I particular like the arc of mountains in the upper half of the picture, running from Plato at the top downwards to Eratosthenes. Inside this arc the largest crater is Archimedes.

A couple of points of interest: if you follow the mountains away from Eratosthenes until just before the first obvious gap this is roughly the landing site of Apollo 15, the fourth Moon landing. Secondly to get a feeling of the scale of features on the Moon, Eratosthenes is about 35miles or 58km across which is not far off the size of my home city of Birmingham.