Poyasnenie: Vsya oblast' yuzhnogo polyusa Luny predstavlyaet soboyu dramaticheskuyu kakofoniyu iz kraterov i pikov. Ekstremal'nye rakursy i ves'ma peresechennaya mestnost' delayut etu oblast' ves'ma trudnoi dlya navigacii. I vse eto tol'ko dlya zemnyh nablyudatelei, a predstav'te, kakie problemy po navigacii vstanut pered staratelyami po dobyche l'da v budushem! Segodnya u nas velikolepnaya novaya fotografiya obrashennoi k Zemle chasti pripolyarnoi oblasti Luny. Nachinaya s kratera Moreta (Moretus), diametrom v 114 km, i dalee na yug i nemnogo zapadnee my vidim perekryvayushiesya starye kratery s ploskim dnom i dve gory na gorizonte, sredi vysokih lunnyh pikov. Esli sledovat' nomenklature iz klassicheskoi karty 1954 goda Yuena Uitakera (Ewen Whitaker) my nablyudaem na perednem plane pik M1, otbrasyvayushii ten' na krater Kabeo (Cabeus), i M3, nahodyashiisya nemnogo pozadi i vostochnee kratera, pochti na otmetke v 90° yuzhnoi shiroty. Uitaker predpolozhil, chto M1 vozvyshaetsya na 20000–25000 futov (6–7,5 km) nad obshem urovnem poverhnosti, a M3 neskol'ko nizhe i vozvyshaetsya na vysote v 15000–20000 futov (4,5–6 km). Srazu za polyusom lezhat eshe dva dovol'no krupnyh pika — M4 i M5, kotorye podnimayutsya do vysoty primerno v 30000 futov (9 km) i horosho zametnye pri horoshem osveshenii vo vremya libracii Luny. Eti piki nazyvalis' gorami Leibnica (Leibnitz Mts), poka IAU ne uprazdnilo eto nazvanie (prim. perevodchika: seichas na Lune ostalsya tol'ko krater Leibnica). Vse eti piki yavlyayutsya chast'yu oboda basseina kratera Eitkena (Aitken) na yuzhnom polyuse Luny — odnogo iz krupneishih obrazovanii obratnoi storony Luny, inogda vidimyh s Zemli.

— Chak Vud

Tehnicheskie detali:
3 September, 2004. One of our first pictures taken with our new 14" f/4,5 Maksutov Newtonian telescope (Observatory Radebeul). We have taken 2000 raw images with the Philipps ToU-Cam Pro for each of the 2 pictures of the mosaic and added these raw images at a rate of 4% with Giotto. The 2 resulting images were processed with Fitswork. To reduce the seeing we used a Schuler IR-Filter. Martin Fielder.

Dopolnitel'nye ssylki:
Observatory Radebeul
Mountains Beyond Cabeus - LO IV
Ewen Whitaker (1954) The Lunar South Pole Regions, Journal British Astronomical Association, 64, pp 234-242. Ewen's map also appears on p. 127 of The Modern Moon: A Personal View.

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