Re: MOON - VESTA, July 16 - 31, 07

Moon, July 22
20h UTC

coords: 14 07 s 17 35
long trmntr: w 6.228d
sin cent long: -0.1084
ecc ell: 0.994
dist: 251 041 mi / 404 011 km
diam: 29.6'
illum: 55.5%
Moonset London: 22:32 GMT

Features:
N- Murchison/Pallas, Bode, Archimedes, Autolycus,
Aristillus, N Limb (++, Bond, Barrow, Peary, Nansen
at 20h trmntr xing E Plato
Libration: e 0.14, n 6.1

S- not advantageous, Ptolemaeus Chain Good
at 0h trmnttr between Thebit and Birt

Moon trav 10.907d @ 0.454 d/h

VESTA: 16 05 19 s 17 26 (0h 23rd)
6.5 mag, trav 17"/h
Vesta is ca 2 deg N of Beta Scorpii

Regards,
Ben, 90.126 n 35.539

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