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Lunar #4: Montes Apenninus

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Montes Apenninus forms part of the rim of Mare Imbrium. This is perhaps the most prominent mounain range on the Moon.

Images:

  1. The area imaged on 2023-02-28, stacked from 600 video frames taken with a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector of D = 200 mm and f = 3500 mm and Canon EOS 600Dα camera. The phase was +64%.
  2. Dto. with annotation and scale.