MOON - VESTA, June, 07
Moon, June 8
0h UTC
coords: 22 48 s 07 38
cent long trmntr: e 1.135d
sin long: 0.0198
ecc ell: 0.994
dist: 232 793 mi / 374 644 km
diam: 31.9'
illum: 55.5%
Moonrise London: 00:25
Quadrature @ 11:44UT
Features:
N- Pallas, Bode + rilles, Appenine Mts, Bradley Rille,
Archimeded, Spitzbergen Mts, Piton, Piazzi Smith,
Plato + rilles + graben...
Libration: w 5.22d, n 0.44d
at 0h trmntr xing Autolycus and Aristillus
S- Oppolzer/Reamur (ruins) + Imbrium scars, Flammarion
(degraded), Herschel, Ptolomaeus (ruin), Alphonsus Chain,
Thebit, Rupes Recta,
at 0h trmntr xing Miller/Nasseridin
Moon trav 12.928d @ 0.54 d/h
VESTA: 16 24 23 s 14 19
5.5mag, 36"/h - ca. 2.5 deg NNW of Phi Ophiuchi
Vesta is beginning to slow in tis retrograde motion and
it should turn back to eastward motion around July 10.
Regards,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539
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