South is up in this image, more info below.

 

            
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 On a night with better seeing, a series
            of images with the 1.8x barlow yielded some fine details along
            the terminator. This scene was truly inspiring to me, a huge
            circular chain of mountains surrounding Sinus Iridum - the Jura
            Mountains (Montes Jura) with 18,000 foot cliffs jutting into
            the sunrise. The large sea to the upper left of this image is
            the huge Mare Imbrium, with two isolated craters Le Verrier and
            Helicon in the frozen lava sea. The elongated sea to the lower
            left is Mare Frigoris, and the isolated chain of mountains just
            to the left of Sinus Iridum is Montes Recti, a 55 mile long chain
            protruding 5500 feet above the floor of Imbrium.

            
Processing: 300/1000
            best frames, MAP 50 alignment in Registax, Regulated Van Cittert
            Deconvolution in PixInsight Pro, Levels and Contrast Masking
            In Photoshop CS3, Focus Magic Plugin.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 with 1.8x Barlow
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
CCD Camera:  Image Source DMK 31AU03.AS
Filter:  Hoya R72
Exposure:  1/60 sec  15fps
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing good, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  35F
Processing:  Registax, PixInsight Pro, Photoshop CS3, Focus Magic Plugin