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von Tom
05-02-2012, 02:01 AM
Average seeing this evening for the Moon. I went exploring at high magnification and saw these interesting formations. Imaged with a 12" Sky-Watcher Dobsonian and a Canon EOS 600D with 5x Powermate, about 1000 frames in video crop mode.

Looking these up later I could identify:

The crater Gruithuisen at 2/3rds down and 1/3rd across of the image. Mons Gruithuisen Gamma, a volcanic dome with a 900m crater visible at its summit (centre top of image) and Mons Gruithuisen Delta, a lunar mountain immediately to the lower right of Gamma.

Also attached is a wider view from a still photo and a full disk image.

Thanks for looking

supernova1965
05-02-2012, 07:05 AM
Great Job keep it up love the volcanic dome:eyepop:

Clayton
05-02-2012, 08:48 AM
Very nice Tom.

h0ughy
05-02-2012, 09:36 AM
nice moonage there

Shiraz
05-02-2012, 05:48 PM
nice images Tom - love the dome. regards Ray

von Tom
12-02-2012, 08:53 PM
Thanks guys. I've simulated another viewpoint using the Lunar Terminator Visualisation Tool and a mosaic of 2 frames of the area.

Tom