MOON - VESTA, Aug 9, 07

Moon, Aug 9,
08h UTC

coords: 06 06 n 28 13
long trmntr: w 39.77d
sin cent long: w 0.64
ecc ell: 0.7097
dist: 233 898 mi / 376 423 km
diam: 31.7'
illum: 14.8%

Features:
N- Encke R (ruin), Marius + elevs + rille, Aristarchus
Plateau, Wollaston + alpha and gamma, Rumker
Mairan + craterlets....
at 08h trmntr xing Sinus Roris

S- Flamsteed + elevs, Hansteen, Billy, Mersennius,
Leibig, de Gasparis + rilles, Schickhard, Wargentin/
Nasmyth/Phocylides, Bailly (huge)
Libration: e 5.2d, s 5.56d
at 08h trmntr xing Gassendi

Moon trav 12.78d @ 0.523 d/h

VESTA: 16 14 28 s 19 07
mag 6.8, trav 31"/h
Vesta is ca. 0.5d NE of Nu Scorpii.

Regards,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539