Moon mosaic, 9.5 days 71.8%  
Moon

Moon mosaic made of four 1000 frames videos		  
 
The Moon (Latin: Luna, mensis) is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The common centre of mass of the system (the barycentre) is located about 1,700 km—a quarter the Earth's radius—beneath the surface of the Earth. The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth every 27.3 days (the orbital period), and the periodic variations in the geometry of the Earth–Moon–Sun system are responsible for the lunar phases that repeat every 29.5 days (the synodic period).

The Moon's diameter is 3,474 km, a little more than a quarter of that of the Earth. Thus, the Moon's surface area is less than a tenth that of the Earth (about a quarter the Earth's land area, approximately as large as Russia, Canada, and the United States combined), and its volume is about 2 percent that of Earth. The pull of gravity at its surface is about 17 percent of that at the Earth's surface.

The Moon is the only celestial body to which humans have traveled and upon which humans have performed a manned landing. The first artificial object to pass near the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, the first artificial object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9, and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966. The United States Apollo program achieved the only manned missions to date, resulting in six landings between 1969 and 1972. Human exploration of the Moon ceased with the conclusion of the Apollo program, although a few robotic landers and orbiters have been sent to the Moon since that time.

 
 
Technical details:  
Location:  
 Soria - Spain
Date:  
 03/05/2009 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Conditions:  
 Very good
Temperature:  
 7ºC
Humidity:  
 low
 
Telescope:  
 Long Perng ED80 f/6.9
Reducer/corrector:  
 No reducer
Filter:  
 Baader Neodimiun 1.25"
Mount:  
 Vixen GPD2 Autostar Meade
Camera:  
 Philips SPC900 SC1 ONCM firmware
Exposure:  
 4x1000frames@5fps
Guiding tube:  
 No guiding
Guiding camera:  
 No guide camera
Guiding software:  
 No guide software
 
Procesing:  
 RegiStax5  
Notes:  
  
     

 
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