Neper and vicinity

Conditions:
Clear, good transparency, moon waning gibbous at 93%

Targets Observed:
Neper and vicinity

Notes
The terminator shows at 84 degrees east tonight illuminating the central peak in Neper. Neper appears as a long thin oval (141 kms) with steep walls and a tall central mountain. The walls and the peak are in light and the floor is black with shadow.

Just south lies craters Schubert and Back and then the walled plain of Kastern. Beyond them Mare Smythii curves away into sunset.