Date/Time: 1-23-03/06:35 EST (11:35UT)
Location: Mt. Joy Twp., Pa. 
Site Elevation: ~130 ft. AMSL
Sky Darkness: 20 day 3 hour waning gibbous moon (20 days 3 hours), ~64%
Instrument: 12.5-inch, D & G Optical Dobsonian
Magnification: 200X
Weather: partly cloudy (cirrus clouds), 6 F, light wind with moderate gusts.
Seeing: good to very good.

Object: Lunar sunset ray 50 deg. North and 16.9 deg. East (Rukl Chart #5) The sunset ray was relatively wide (~20 km) at the distal end and remained so until I finished observing at 07:00 EST. The ray originated from the central peak(s) area and extended 25-30 km to the crater s sunlit eastern wall.

Site Longitude = +75.800
Site Latitude = +40.100


Feature = Aristoteles Nearby
Feature Longitude: = +16.900
Feature  Latitude: = +50.000

Reproducing Lighting For: 2003/1/23 at 11:35 U.T.

Desired Solar Altitude =  +3.479(Setting),  Azimuth = +263.846
Average Co-longitude =  157.683

Aristoteles - +191,+768: A majestic walled-plain 60 miles across, with magnificent ravine divided and finely terraced wals rising in considerable peaks, the highest 11,000 geet. On the floor are many hills, one group being nearly central and with the remains of an old ring to the west of it, and crossed by a craterlet-chain....(Wilkins and Moore, The Moon, 1955, Faber & Faber Ltd)