I got the image! Unfortunately I also got busy and didn't get the stars identified. But I did find some information about it as well: it was one of 178 images taken by the only ever lunar observatory. This observatory (which still stands, though it's basically useless without humans to run it) is a 3" telescope operating in ultraviolet: the Apollo 16 Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. It produced images on film, so the astronauts had to return that film to EaRth to be developed. The picture was taken from the lunar surface at coordinates 8.97 S x 15.51 E sometime between April 20 and April 23, 1972. I'll post the identifying information as soon as I have it. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] (I tried installing a really old planetarium program on my work computer, but it's being fussy. It may have to wait a little longer until I get home this evening.)
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