Early this morning the sky was clear: the first time for ages, it seems! To the south the waning gibbous Moon was in the constellation of Virgo, close to the blue-white star Spica. Part of a binary system, it is around 250 light years from Earth and is one of the twenty brightest stars in the sky.
Towards the Moon's north pole the dark-floored crater Plato was prominent, with the well-known Alpine Valley - an ancient impact scar - close by.
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