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Community photo entitled Prominent craters close to the Moon's Apennine mountains, and Apollo 15's landing site by Randy Strauss on 05/17/2024 at Nebraska

Prominent craters close to the Moon's Apennine mountains, and Apollo 15's landing site

On 05/17/2024 09:36 pm by Randy Strauss| Nebraska

Framed this image to feature prominent craters in the Apennine mountain region of the Moon: Reinhold, Copernicus, Eratosthenes, Archimedes and Plato to name just a few. Apollo 15 landed next to the Apennines in July 1971.

Celestron 4SE, Canon SL-2 DSLR, 2x Barlow lens

GIMP to sharpen and refine shadows from a single image. ISO 1600, 1/30th of a second exposure.