Caught a very pretty sight this evening just before the fog rolled in here in Petaluma--the sun was rising on the crater Hesiodus, next to Pitatus, at the southern end of M. Nubium. The two craters seem to have a wall in common, and there's break in that wall on the eastern side of Hesiodus, allowing a fine ribbon of light to enter the crater at sunrise, while the rest of the crater is quite dark. The ribbon crosses the crater and lights up the opposite wall. Very pretty--anybody notice that one before? I'm just getting into lunar observing really, with my trusty refractor and even trustier Rukl!
--george
--george
George Golitzin
