Southern Mountainous Rigion

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Date & Time:	Oct 9 1998, 26:26 JST(+0900), 2sec exp.
Optical:	TAKAHASHI 12.5cm(4.9") fluorite refractor with Or6mm eyepiece (f=12300mm, F123.0)
	Auto-guided with GOTO MX-II Equatorial
Camera:	VIXEN VX-1
Film:	Fujicolor Super G Ace 800
Location:	Ooizumi vil., Yamanashi pref.

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In stretch of lunar southern hemisphere, you can see no major lunar seas, covered with uncountable craters. Almost all of craters have individual peculiar names, but it's difficult to identify each crater when you observe with high-powered telescope.

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Gazetteer

	INDEX	NAME	Crater's Diameter
	1	Vlaq	89km
	2	Hommel	125km
	3	Pitiscus	82km
	4	Mutos	78km
	5	Manzinus	98km
	6	Simpelius	70km
	7	Curtius	95km
	8	Zach	71km
	9	Jacobi	68km
	10	Lilius	61km
	11	Cuvier	75km
	12	Licetus	75km
	13	Stofler	126km
	14	Maurolycus	114km
	15	Barocius	82km
	16	Clairaut	75km
	17	Baco	70km
	18	Breislak	50km
	19	Buch	54km
	20	Busching	52km
	21	Nonius	70km
	22	Nicolai	42km

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Antarctic area

Southeast region of Moon

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