Thanks go out to my friend Deepak Kumar for mentioning this event to me. The Lunar L, X and Lunar V features on the Moon are simply impact crater rims, with maybe some mountain ridges thrown in, that happen to look familiar to people who use the Roman alphabet. Once every lunar cycle, they are all brightly lit and visible, if you look. Look along the terminator, which is the line between line and shadow, local dawn on the Moon. Just above the bottom is the Lunar L. About a quarter way up from the bottom, the Lunar X stands out. Now look a little more than halfway up, the Lunar V is also there though perhaps not as prominent. This was taken around 8PM Friday night, with my 127mm Maksutov telescope and my Canon T8i camera. Ten frames stacked and sharpened with Autostakkert (a free little program designed just for this kind of thing). You might also think you see a Lunar O, but there are a lot of those here. 🙂
