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Lunar #79: Sinus Aestuum

This bay extends from Oceanus Procellarum and lies just south of the western end of Montes Apenninus and southeast of carter Eratosthenes. Wood lists it for its dark-mantle volcanic deposits (Wood 2004a, 2012a). There is a distinct wrinkle in the plain of the sinus some distance from its south east boundary.

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.