A break from Mars - Southern Moon Highlands

[John K]

On the morning of the 20th, swung the scope around to the Moon before packing up and got to try out my ASI120mm camera on the Moon - indicative of the deteriorating and poor seeing is this shot which is only 550 staked frames from 11,000 frames - the rest were quite variable and poor.

Have been unable to identify the craters or the 3-4 peaks shown on the horizon so anyone that can do that would be great.

Clear skies,

John K.

[TheAstroChannel (Sean)]

That is an incredible capture!
I cant identify any of those craters so I am no help there.
I didnt realise we are able to get that sort of magnification of the moon! It looks like an overhead shot from above the surface

[Astro_Bot]

Cool shot. The last people to get a view like that were Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt on Apollo 17.

[h0ughy (David)]

that image scale is unreal - pity about the seeing going south

[John K]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Have identified the area and the craters as Casatus (111km), Klaproth (119km) and Newton (79km).

Leibnitz Mountains which rise to 9,000m and are the highest on the moon can be seen above the dark sky.

Personally I think that the great Sir Isaac Newton would have deserved a bigger crater on the moon!

John.

[Stefan Buda]

Fantastic frame but shame about the seeing. I've been wanting to do something similar too but I'll wait until I have a cam with a slightly bigger chip.

[John Hothersall]

I saw a similar scene with the Mars FL+Flea3 but it was too breezy but the mountains looked wonderful as you have shown against the black sky, this section is librating onto the disc.

John.

[Star Catcher (Ted Dobosz)]

Hi John, a great image at a wonderful scale!
Ted

[omegacrux (David)]

That is one very good image !

David

[Clayton]

Lovely image John
Well done