--- Jon Christensen <coldari@msn.com> wrote:

Sounds like fun. I kept checking the sky over my house tonight but there were always clouds obstructing.

Around midnight, the jet stream came over the Salt Lake Valley, oriented east-west, but drifting north-south. For about 15 minutes, the jet stream's two or three mile wide river of high thin clouds, moving at at 80-100 mph, were silhouetted against the 11 day old Moon. A lunar lowland surrounding crater Lehmann C and a highland to the east at lunar long. 48°W and lat. 36°S created a good lighting effect. The lowland valley was in shadow between the Doppelmayer and Lee crater areas in southern Humorum to west Drebbel. Drebbel is long. 48° W lat. 42° S. Only the diamond ring shaped top of Lehmann C stuck out of darkness into the sunlight. Schickard area http://www.fabiolottero.it/lac/110.htm (thumbnail) http://www.fabiolottero.it/lac/110.jpg (742kb direct link) Humorum area http://www.fabiolottero.it/lac/93.htm (thumbnail) http://www.fabiolottero.it/lac/93.jpg (825kb direct link) As the evening progressed, Schickard's high eastern wall became well-defined with a good contrast of against the pitch black crater wall. I decided to get some sleep before the terminator breached Schickard's eastern wall and hit that crater's floor. I was hoping to see a lunar ray effect as the very first shaft of light penetrated the wall and reached the Schickard's floor. - Canopus56 NASA Lunar Aeronautical Charts (LAC) (1967 Ed) http://www.fabiolottero.it/lac/map.htm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/