Sky South is up in this image, more info below.

 

            
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We begin our journey
            into this very complex region with the large dark lava filled
            basin just to the left of center known as Mare Vaporum, the "Sea
            of Vapors". This is a small Sea, which is very flat and
            about 140 miles across. On its left edge is a very bright crater
            called Manilius. 24 miles in size, its walls rise to nearly 10,000
            feet above its inner floor.

            
The giant arc of
            mountains along the bottom edge just coming into sunlight is
            Montes Appennius. Its tallest peaks rise to nearly 17,000 feet,
            dwarfing anything we have here in Arizona.

            
One final pair
            to take note of is the pair Murchison/Pallas which is the wrecked
            pair of craters just to the upper right of Mare Vaporum.

            
Spend some time
            with the large image, the details in this part of the moon are
            worth exploring!

            
Processing: 250/1000
            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 
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
CCD Camera:  Image Source DMK 31AU03.AS
Filter:  Hoya R72
Exposure:  1/108 sec  15fps
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing Average, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  35F
Processing:  Registax, PixInsight Pro, Photoshop CS3, Focus Magic Plugin