Here there are some photos of the Moon approximately two days after the full moon phase:
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Last quarter moon
Here are some shots of the moon in a phase very close to the last quarter.
In the upper left quadrant of the photo there is the crater Albategnius with a diameter of 136 kilometers and a central peak about 1200 meters high.
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Aristoteles and Eudoxus
Aristoteles and Eudoxus are two craters about 88 and 68 kilometers wide.
The flat area in the lower right is Lacus Mortis (Lake of Death) with the rimae Burg.
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Theophilus
Theophilus is a crater 101 kilometres wide, 4400 meters deep and located between Sinus Asperitatis and Mare Nectaris.
It is characterized by a central mountain group that rises for about 2000 meters from the bottom of the crater.
You can see the same crater from an other point of view using the data from Lunar Orbiter 3 at this link in Wikipedia.
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The Apollo 11 site
The photo shows the southern edge of the Sea of Tranquility where the Eagle lem of the Apollo 11 mission landed on 20 July 1969 bringing astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the Moon while the Columbia module with Michael Collins on board remained in lunar orbit.
In their honor some of the area’s craters have been named with their names: Armstrong (5 km), Aldrin (3 km), and Collins (3 km).
Kepler is an isolated crater on the edge of the Oceanus Procellarum with evident rays due to the impact of a meteorite.
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Aristarchus
Aristarchus is a crater with a diameter of 40 km and is one of the brightest areas on the Moon.
Close to it there are the Herodotus crater from which the deep rhyme Vallis Schroteri starts and the ghost crater Prinz.
The Clavius crater is one of the biggest craters and it is located near the south pole in a heavily cratered region.
Water molecules have recently been discovered inside Clavius.
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Montes Apenninus
The Montes Apenninus are a long mountain range between Mare Imbrium (left) and Mare Serenitatis (right) and the its highest peak is about 5400 meters.
Below the Montes Apenninus end on the Eratosthens crater and the largest crater in the photo is Archimedes.
Very interesting is the Rima Hadley that it is a rille near the western (left) edge of the Montes Apenninus, near the landing site of Apollo15.
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Montes Carpatus
The mountain formation in the center of the photo are the Montes Carpatus that are several peaks separated by deep valleys.
The large crater just below is Copernicus while the crater near the right edge of the photo is Eratosthenes and between them you see the ghost crater Stadius, the rest of an ancient impact crater covered by lava.
