J. Herschel                             Earth-based telescopic image                    Cropped Lunar Orbiter image .

Image by ESO

Full sized  version of Lunar Orbiter LO4-164H1

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Brief

Good telescopic images of areas near the lunar limb in the  NW quadrant are hard to come by, but the  ESO telescope provides many of the best we have. The ESO image at the above left actually covers the entire area of Section 2.  The easiest crater to identify in that image is J. Herschel, which is the large oval in the upper half. The Lunar Orbiter image at right is cropped to show most of J. Herschel which is actually a disintegrated wall plain, 156 km wide.

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Other Lunar Orbiter images

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-164H2.jpg  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-152H1.jpg  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/img/4-152H2.jpg

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For the latest information and images regarding this section, including Apollo Hasselblad (H), Metric (M), and Panoramic (P) images, go to: Section 2  Clickable Sections Map

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