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Friday 30 October 2015

Sirsalis Rille & Crüger Crater

So it has been a while since I decided to spend any real time looking at the moon and recently I decided I would try and tackle a couple more of the Lunar 100.

I targeted two targets that were in the same area Sirsalis Rille (L77) & Crüger Crater (L52) and you can see the image I captured of them below.


Sirsalis Rille is a 426Km long lunar rille that starts at the edge of Oceanus Procellarum near Sirsalis  crater from which it gets its name and proceeds directly away from the mare, eventually ending up among the cracks in the floor of Darwin crater. If you look closely around this area of the image you can also actually make Darwin Rille perpendicularly intercepting Sirsalis Rille.

I have put an image that I took with my 2x Barlow below which possibly shows the intersection a bit clearer.


Crüger Crater was pretty easy to see as it has a very dark interior floor which is actually one of the lowest albedo features on the Moon. The surface has been covered in basaltic lava and has only been exposed to a minimal amount of deposition from impact ejecta. The floor is nearly featureless, with only a tiny craterlet near the centre and few other even more diminutive impacts, none of which I could make out.

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