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Community photo entitled  by David Hoskin on 03/15/2022 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

On 03/15/2022 07:20 pm by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

The nearly full Moon (94.5% illuminated) imaged at 7:20 pm on 15 March. Enlarged images show the bright crater Aristarchus and sinuous Schroter's Valley on the Aristarchus Plateau (top left) and Mare Humorum with the engagement ring-like crater Gassendi, as well as the large craters Schickard, Phocylides and Schiller left to right below the mare (bottom left).

ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera, Celestron OmniXLT150 f/5 450mm reflector telescope, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount.

1000 frames of video were stacked with AutoStakkert, wavelets were adjusted using Registax 6, additional post-processing with Photoshop, PhotoScape X, and Microsoft Photo.