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The table below shows my observing logs based on targets I've observed from the L100 list of interesting Lunar targets compiled by Charles Wood and published in Sky & Telescope magazine.
| L100 | Name | Description | Observing Logs |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | Moon | Large satellite | No observations made yet. |
| L2 | Earthshine | Twice reflected sunlight | No observations made yet. |
| L3 | Mare/highland dichotomy | Two materials with distinct compositions | No observations made yet. |
| L4 | Apennines | Imbrium basin rim | No observations made yet. |
| L5 | Copernicus | Archetypal large complex crater | No observations made yet. |
| L6 | Tycho | Large rayed crater with impact melts | No observations made yet. |
| L7 | Altai Scarp | Nectaris basin rim | No observations made yet. |
| L8 | Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina | Crater sequence illustrating stages of degradation | No observations made yet. |
| L9 | Clavius | Lacks basin features in spite of its size | No observations made yet. |
| L10 | Mare Crisium | Mare contained in large circular basin | No observations made yet. |
| L11 | Clavius | Lacks basin features in spite of its size | No observations made yet. |
| L12 | Proclus | Oblique-impact rays | No observations made yet. |
| L13 | Gassendi | Floor-fractured crater | No observations made yet. |
| L14 | Sinus Iriuum | Very large crater with missing rim | No observations made yet. |
| L15 | Straight Wall | Best example of a lunar fault | No observations made yet. |
| L16 | Petavius | Crater with domed and fractured floor | No observations made yet. |
| L17 | Schroters Valley | Giant sinuous rille | No observations made yet. |
| L18 | Mare Serenitatis dark edges | Distinct mare areas with different compositions | No observations made yet. |
| L19 | Alpine Valley | Lunar graben | No observations made yet. |
| L20 | Posidonius | Floor-fractured crater | No observations made yet. |
| L21 | Fracastorius | Crater with subsided and fractured floor | No observations made yet. |
| L22 | Aristarchus Plateau | Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics | No observations made yet. |
| L23 | Pico | Isolated Imbrium basin-ring fragment | No observations made yet. |
| L24 | Hyginus Rille | Rille containing rimless collapse pits | No observations made yet. |
| L25 | Messier and Messier A | Oblique ricochet-impact pair | No observations made yet. |
| L26 | Mare Frigoris | Arcuate mare of uncertain origin | No observations made yet. |
| L27 | Archimedes | Large crater lacking central peak | No observations made yet. |
| L28 | Hipparchus | Subject of first drawing of a single crater | No observations made yet. |
| L29 | Aridaeus Rille | Long, linear graben | No observations made yet. |
| L30 | Schiller | Possible oblique impact | No observations made yet. |
| L31 | Taruntius | Young floor-fractured crater | No observations made yet. |
| L32 | Arago Alpha and Beta | Volcanic domes | No observations made yet. |
| L33 | Serpentine Ridge | Basin inner-ring segment | No observations made yet. |
| L34 | Lacus Mortis Triesnecker Rilles | Strange crater with rille and ridge | No observations made yet. |
| L35 | Triesnecker Rilles | Rille family | No observations made yet. |
| L36 | Grimaldi Basin | Small two-ring basin | No observations made yet. |
| L37 | Bailly | Barely discernible basin | No observations made yet. |
| L38 | Sabine and Ritter | Possible twin impacts | No observations made yet. |
| L39 | Schickard | Crater floor with Orientale basin ejecta stripe | No observations made yet. |
| L40 | Janssen Rille | Rare example of a highland rille | No observations made yet. |
| L41 | Bessel ray | Ray of uncertain origin near Bessel | No observations made yet. |
| L42 | Marius Hills | Complex of volcanic domes and hills | No observations made yet. |
| L43 | Wargentin | A crater filled to the rim with lava or ejecta | No observations made yet. |
| L44 | Mersenius | Domed floor cut by secondary craters | No observations made yet. |
| L45 | Maurolycus | Region of saturation cratering | No observations made yet. |
| L46 | Regiomontanus central peak | Possible volcanic peak | No observations made yet. |
| L47 | Alphonsus dark spots | Dark-halo eruptions on crater floor | No observations made yet. |
| L48 | Cauchy region | Fault, rilles and domes | No observations made yet. |
| L49 | Gruithuisen Delta and Gamma | Volcanic domes formed with viscous lavas | No observations made yet. |
| L50 | Cayley Plains | Light, smooth plains of uncertain origin | No observations made yet. |
| L51 | Davy crater chain | Result of comet-fragment impacts | No observations made yet. |
| L52 | Cruger | Possible volcanic caldera | No observations made yet. |
| L53 | Lamont | Possible buried basin | 2nd September 2007 |
| L54 | Hippalus Rilles | Rilles concentric to Humorum basin | No observations made yet. |
| L55 | Baco | Unusually smooth crater floor and surrounding plains | No observations made yet. |
| L56 | Mare Australe | A partially flooded ancient basin | No observations made yet. |
| L57 | Reiner Gamma | Conspicuous swirl and magnetic anomaly | 13th October 2008 |
| L58 | Rheita Valley | Basin secondary-crater chain | No observations made yet. |
| L59 | Schiller-Zucchius basin | Badly degraded overlooked basin | No observations made yet. |
| L60 | Kies Pi | Volcanic dome | No observations made yet. |
| L61 | Mosting A | Simple crater close to centre of lunar near side | No observations made yet. |
| L62 | Rumker Hills | Large volcanic dome | No observations made yet. |
| L63 | Imbrium sculpture | Basin ejecta near and overlying Boscovich and Julius Caesar | No observations made yet. |
| L64 | Descartes | Apollo 16 landing site; putative region of highland volcanism | No observations made yet. |
| L65 | Hortensius domes | Dome field north of Hortensius | No observations made yet. |
| L66 | Hadley Rille | Lava channel near Apollo 15 landing site | No observations made yet. |
| L67 | Fra Mauro formation | Apollo 14 landing site on Imbrium ejecta | No observations made yet. |
| L68 | Flamsteed P | Proposed young volcanic crater; Surveyor 1 landing site | No observations made yet. |
| L69 | Copernicus secondary craters | Rays and craterlets near Pytheas | No observations made yet. |
| L70 | Humboldtianum basin | Multi-ring impact basin | No observations made yet. |
| L71 | Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle | Ash eruptions northwest of crater | No observations made yet. |
| L72 | Atlas dark-halo craters | Explosive pits on the floor of Atlas | No observations made yet. |
| L73 | Smythii basin | Difficult-to-observe basin scarp and mare | No observations made yet. |
| L74 | Copernicus H | Dark-halo impact crater | No observations made yet. |
| L75 | Ptolemaeus B | Saucerlike depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus | No observations made yet. |
| L76 | W. Bond | Large crater degraded by Imbrium ejecta | No observations made yet. |
| L77 | Sirsalis Rille | Procellarum basin radial rilles | No observations made yet. |
| L78 | Lambert R | A buried ghost crater | No observations made yet. |
| L79 | Sinus Aestuum | Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit | No observations made yet. |
| L80 | Orientale basin | Youngest large impact basin | No observations made yet. |
| L81 | Hesiodus A | Concentric crater | No observations made yet. |
| L82 | Linne | Small crater once thought to have disappeared | No observations made yet. |
| L83 | Plato craterlets | Crater pits at limits of detection | No observations made yet. |
| L84 | Pitatus | Crater with concentric rilles | No observations made yet. |
| L85 | Langrenus rays | Aged ray system | No observations made yet. |
| L86 | Prinz Rilles | Rille system near the Prinz | No observations made yet. |
| L87 | Humboldt | Crater with central peaks and dark spots | No observations made yet. |
| L88 | Peary | Difficult-to-observe polar crater | No observations made yet. |
| L89 | Valentine Dome | Volcanic dome | No observations made yet. |
| L90 | Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins | Small craters near the Apollo 11 landing site | No observations made yet. |
| L91 | De Gasparis Rilles | Area with many rilles | No observations made yet. |
| L92 | Gylden Valley | Part of Imbrium radial sculpture | No observations made yet. |
| L93 | Dionysius rays | Unusual and rare dark rays | No observations made yet. |
| L94 | Drygalski | Large south-pole region crater | No observations made yet. |
| L95 | Procellarum basin | The Moons biggest basin? | No observations made yet. |
| L96 | Leibnitz Mountains | Rim of South Pole-Aitken basin | No observations made yet. |
| L97 | Inghirami Valley | Orientale basin ejecta | No observations made yet. |
| L98 | Imbrium lava flows | Mare lave-flow boundaries | No observations made yet. |
| L99 | Ina caldera | D-shaped young volcanic caldera | No observations made yet. |
| L100 | Mare Marginis swirls | Possible magnetic-field deposits | No observations made yet. |