Observation by Grahame Wheatley
Grahame lives in Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, England. He has been a member of the SPA Lunar Section since 1997 and has made dozens of highly detailed pencil drawings of lunar features. Grahame uses a 125 mm refractor and a 240 mm Newtonian.
South polar region
25 February 2000 - 03:10-06:45 UT - 240 mm Newtonian x235
Sun’s Col: 152.32°-153.84°
This was a re-examination of the previous morning’s observation and in a dark sky this time. The seeing too was greatly improved, it just got better and better and was very steady for most of the time. It must have been AI in some moments, giving me an amazing picture of this complicated landscape. In the mass of complex interlocking shapes I could make out craters everywhere, some looking like large black lakes with bright rims here and there. Another large pool of black poured in from the limb, making chunks of land appear to float in space. Also there were lots of heights and mountain chains but like the craters hard to identify. In his Portfolio of Lunar Drawings Harold Hill positions the pole some way south of Malapert. I think this crater is roughly central in my drawing, one of the dark lakes, but I am not sure. Rükl shows the prime meridian skimming the rim of Moretus and the pole west of Amundsen, but again I am unsure as to whether I have shown this crater.
