Nice pic. Any idea what the bight spot is at about 8 o'clock? I saw a NASA video the other day of a meteor impacting the moon so not impossible you caught one as well.
That's the crater Aristarchus. It's a lot younger that the darker area, or mare, that it sits in and the meteorite that created it punched through the darker material and sprayed the much lighter material beneath it out onto the surface, it's so reflective in the sun that its easy to mistake it for a light against the much older background. It's one of the brightest visible features on the near side. For me, the most dramatic feature visible is the crater Tycho, at about five o'clock in the picture. The impact was so massive that the 'rays' of the ejecta blanket cover almost a quarter of the entire surface of the moon. They're quite noticeable in the picture, I was quite pleased about that. Try to imagine an explosion that throws debris that far, even in one sixth earth gravity.
As I was riding through London I found The Great Gatsby in his Bently Continental. Nice car. Not my cuppa tea, but still a sweet ride.
Cracker Dog or Coyote? Either way I didn't get to get back in bed with the missus, and before you ask the missus is the one in the pink dressing gown.
