I know they happen every month but I couldn't remember seeing a crescent moon that threw the surface into such sharp relief! So decided a quick snap would be today's image.
The Apollo 11 landing site is near the centre of the crescent - you can see two quite prominent overlapping craters near the centre and then following the crescent up another little crater "bump" before the smoother plains of the "lunar mare" (darker grey). Apollo 11 landed just north of that crater bump.
Apollo 17, the last landing, landed north of that - follow the crescent up from Apollo 11 and when you hit the tiny crater right on the terminator between light and dark head north east from there - once you hit the more rugged terrain that's roughly where the last men who stood on the moon visited.
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- Canon EOS 550D
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- f/8.0
- 250mm
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