MOON - VESTA, June 8, 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%
Quadratu 11:44UTC

Features:
N- Pallas, Bode + rilles, Appenine Mts,
Bradley Rille, Archimedes, Spitzbergen Mts,
Piton, Piazzi Smith, Plato + rilles + graben
Libration: w 5.22d, n 0.44d
at 0h trmntr xing Aristillus and Autolycus

S- Oppolzer/Reamur (ruins), Imbrium scars,
Flammarion (degr), Herschel, Ptolomaeus (ruin),
Alphonsus chain, Thebit, Rupes Recta,

Moon trav 12.928d @ 0.54d/h

VESTA: 16 24 23 s 14 19
5.5 mag, trav 36"/h
Vesta is about 2.5 deg NNW of Phi Ophiuchi.
It is beginning to slow in its retrograde and will
turn back eastward about July 10.

Clear Skies,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539