by Dave Mitsky
I took this afocal photograph of the 8-day-16-hour-old Moon on 2011/5/11 using a Canon PowerShot SD980 IS camera, an Orion SteadyPix Deluxe Camera Mount, a 2" 55mm University Optics Plössl eyepiece, and the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg's 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain. The 110-kilometer-long linear fault or graben known as Rupes Recta or the Straight Wall lies to the lower left of the center of the image. (Rupes Recta is also known as the Scimitar.) The small crater Birt is located to the immediate right of Rupes Recta. Lunar south is to the top. For more on Rupes Recta, see http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/index.php?/archives/328-Rupes-Recta.html