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Lunar #50: Cayley plains

This is one of Wood's own creations. He writes in his notes (Hardwick 2013a):

Cayley Plains lies just to the south of the Ariadaeus Rimae and consists of an open plain. Within the plain are crater Cayley and crater Whewell. This seems to me to be a remarkably flat piece of land only slighly peppered by a few small craters.

Image:

1. The area on 2023-05-27, stacked from 700 video frames taken with a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector of D = 200 mm and f = 3500 mm and Canon EOS 600Dα camera. Wavelet sharpening. The phase was +52%.
2. Dto., annotated and with scale.