Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Copernicus and Co.

Craters at lunar terminator © 2020 Purnendu Gupta

The moon's craters, seen in the lunar twilight zone. At the lunar terminator,  fading sunlight meets near perfect darkness of an airless lunar night disturbed only by the faint glow of earthshine. The grazing rays cast long shadows into the crater pits as the edge of light creeps up the shallow slopes to the rims on the far side. 

On the 3rd of December 2020, this was among the first results from my attempt at high magnification video based lunar imaging.