ASE Lunar 100 Project

This is our attempt to image as many of the Lunar 100 objects as we can. It is a list of one hundred of the most interesting features to observe on the Moon. The list was first described by Charles A. Wood in the article The Lunar 100 in Sky & Telescope magazine, April 2004. They are arranged in ascending order of observational difficulty. We start populating it March 2021. 66/100

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Lunar 100 map, Sky & Telescope

L1 Moon Large Satellite (Will Joy)...

L2 Earthshine Twice reflected sunlight (Ramsay McIver)...

L5 Copernicus Archetypal large complex crater (Mark Phillips)...

L6 Tycho Large rayed crater with impact melts (Mark Phillips)...

L9 Clavius Lacks basin features in spite of its size (Mike McGovern)...

L10 Mare Crisium - Mare contained in large circular basin (Mike McGovern)...

L11 Aristarchus Very bright crater with dark bands on its walls (Mark Phillips)...

L12 Proclus - Oblique-impact rays (Mike McGovern)...

L13 Gassendi Floor-fractured crater (Mark Phillips)...

L14 Sinus Iridum Very large crater with missing rim (Mike McGovern)...

L16 Petavius Crater with domed and fractured floor (Mike McGovern)...

L20 Posidonius - Floor-fractured crater (Radim Stano)...

L21 Fracastorius - Crater with subsided and fractured floor (Radim Stano)...

L22 Aristarchus Plateau Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics (Radim Stano)...

L23 Pico Isolated Imbrium basin-ring fragment (Mark Phillips)...

L27 Archimedes Large crater lacking central peak (Radim Stano)...

L30 Schiller Possible oblique impact (Radim Stano)...

L31 Taruntius Young floor-fractured crater (Mark Phillips)...

L34 Lacus Mortis - Strange crater with rille and ridge (Radim Stano)...

L39 Schickard Crater floor with Orientale basin ejecta stripe (Mark Phillips)...

L41 Bessel ray - Ray of uncertain origin near Bessel (Mike McGovern)...

L42 Marius Hills Complex of volcanic domes & hills (Radim Stano)...

L45 Maurolycus Region of saturation cratering (Radim Stano)...

L53 Lamont Possible buried basin (Radim Stano)...

L55 Baco Unusually smooth crater floor and surrounding plains (Radim Stano)...

L61 Mösting A Simple crater close to center of lunar near side (Radim Stano)...

L64 Descartes Apollo 16 landing site; putative region of highland volcanism (Radim Stano)...

L66 Hadley Rille Lava channel near Apollo 15 landing site (Mike McGovern)...

L68 Flamsteed P Proposed young volcanic crater and Surveyor 1 landing site (Radim Stano)...

L75 Ptolemaeus B - Saucer-like depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus (Mike McGovern)...

L79 Sinus Aestuum Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit (Mike McGovern)...

L84 Pitatus Crater with concentric rilles (Radim Stano)...

L86 Prinz Rilles Rille system near the crater Prinz (Mark Phillips)...

L92 Gyldén Valley Part of the Imbrium radial sculpture (Radim Stano)...