Gruithuisen Crater, Dome and Mountain

[von Tom (Tom)]

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 (Warren)]

Great Job keep it up love the volcanic dome

[Clayton]

Very nice Tom.

[h0ughy (David)]

nice moonage there

[Shiraz (Ray)]

nice images Tom - love the dome. regards Ray

[von Tom (Tom)]

Thanks guys. I've simulated another viewpoint using the Lunar Terminator Visualisation Tool and a mosaic of 2 frames of the area.

Tom