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On the third day of a lunation, the eastern limb area comes into better view, and depending on the libration, the north or south polar region begins to emerge from the lunar night.
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Warren De La Rue used capital letters for the “De La” portion of his name, but at first the IAU adopted lower case letters “de la” as used on the maps of William Birt and Thomas Elger. Edmund Neison used De la Rue.
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Garfinkle, R.A. (2020). Crater-Hopping: Observing the Moon on Day 3. In: Luna Cognita. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1664-1_8
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