Progresión del eclipse anular del 14 de octubre de 2023, desde la linea central del tránsito en Tenabo, Campeche. Al centro, el anillo solar.

Imágenes capturadas a través de un telescopio Zenithstar 61 de William Optics con una cámara Olympus OMD EM1 II y un filtro solar Thousand Oaks Optics.

One of the most captivating regions of the moon is the Mare Imbrium, one of the largest impact basins on the lunar surface. The region is observable with the naked eye, with binoculars many of its shapes are revealed, but looking at it through a telescope is amazing.

Multiple impacts fill the surface with amazing detail, here we can see details up to 1.5 km in diameter. Mountains, peaks, craters, bays, dorsa, domes, rimae and lava valleys. In the northwest of the mare is Sinus Iridium, a huge bay 250km in diameter, formed by a powerful impact.

The most distinctive craters in the Mare Imbrium are, from north to south and clockwise, Plato, Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus, Archimedes, Wallace, and Eratosthenes. Between Plato and Cassini, the Vallis Alpes extends to the northeast, a lava valley that reaches the Mare Frigoris to the north.

Also from north to south and clockwise (from 12:00 to 7:00), we have the mountain ranges Montes Recti, Montes Tenerife, Montes Alpes, Montes Caucasus. Montes Apeninus , and Montes Carpatus.

To the southeast of Archimedes crater is a darker area called Palus Putredinis, and where it meets the Apeninus Mountains is the winding Rima Hadley, the site of the Apollo 15 landing site in August 1971. Further south in the same mountain range is Mons Huygens, the highest mountain on the moon, with 5,500 meters at its summit.

From the south we can see how the impact rays from the Copernicus crater rise like tentacles over the Mare Imbrium, just as those from the Aristillus crater do over the mare itself but on a smaller scale.

By saturating the natural colors of the moon, the nature of the minerals that make up its surface can be seen.

Sunspots are regions of the sun where the magentic field is many times stronger than their surroundings. While they may seem small, many of these sunspots are many times the size of planet Earth.

Some important craters lie close to the Moon’s south pole. Schiller with its oblong shape, Tycho with its enormous bright rays, and Schikard, with its different tonalities of lava.

Coincidences in the design of the universe always arouse curiosity. Clavius ​​crater, the second largest on the moon's near side, has a spiral of craters within, arranged by size. This challenge to the chaos of the lunar surface has made Clavius ​​occupy the imagination of scientists and creators. The crater is named after the Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius.