Lower moon limb

[stephenmcnelley]

Hi, the moon offered some lovely craters tonight on its lower limb, the image to the left features five of the more striking ones from upper left to lower right;


Cleomedes
Size:
Dimension: 129x129Km / 76x76Mi
Height: 0
Height/Wide ratio: 0.0238
Name Origine:
2 nd century BC greek Astronomer born in Greece

Franklin
Size:
Dimension: 58x58Km / 34x34Mi
Height: 2700m / 8200ft
Height/Wide ratio: 0.0482
Name Origine:
Detailed Name: Benjamin Franklin
18 th century american Philosopher physicist and stateman born
in U. S. A.

Cephus
Size:
Dimension: 41x41Km / 24x24Mi
Height: ?
Height/Wide ratio: Unknown height. Impossible calculation.
Name Origine:
Detailed Name: Cephee
3 rd century greek Mythological character born in Greece

Atlas
Size:
Dimension: 90x90Km / 53x53Mi
Height: 3000m / 9100ft
Height/Wide ratio: 0.0345
Name Origine:
Detailed Name: Atlas
20 th century greek Mythological character born in Greece

Hercules
Size:
Dimension: 71x71Km / 42x42Mi
Height: 3200m / 9700ft
Height/Wide ratio: 0.0464
Name Origine:
Detailed Name: Hercule
6 th century BC roman Mythological character born in Rome




Images by toucam and 25cm Newt. I am just beginning with the toucam and have had the usual learning and weather battles. The two other images to the right are from Friday nights attempts.

[Harb]

I feel better now.............I though I was the only one silly enough to be up at this time of the morning!!

Nice presentation and pic.....good stuff

[ving]

what a time to be up!!

nice lunas and nice little saturn :)

[stephenmcnelley]

Thanks for the compliments lads, i need is to gather more frames in K3 tools to smooth things out a bit, today i installed registax on the lappy so heres hoping, has to be better than file transfers with thumb drives to the desktop for stacking.:rolleyes:

Next full full moon period i would like to try a full moon image of the same scale as harbs beautiful DSLR shot, but using a SW 80mm refractor. Should be a challenge!

[jjjnettie]

Lovely shots and the info makes them extra special. Thanks for posting.

[stephenmcnelley]

Thanks JJJ, its a steep learning curve! but very rewarding too and i have everyone to learn and seek advice from which is a huge help.

[67champ]

Coool.


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