Copernicus and South on the Moon

April 19, 2005

Area of moon from Copernicus south to Schiller Crater

Crater at top in the center is 95 km x 95 km Copernicus. Just below this are craters Reinhold and Lansberg. The crater at the left on the terminator is 32 km x 32 km Kepler. The larger walled plain near the middle on the terminator is 114 km x 114 km Gassendi. Near the bottom of this image is the large walled plain Longomontanus and the crater Scheiner.

Images taken with TEC-140 using 4x Televue Powermate. Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus with Powermate and focal extender.

Three 1/200 sec exposures aligned and stacked with Photoshop CS

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