Around Aristarchus crater


Date & Time: May 17 2019, 22:40 JST(+0900)
Optical: Kasai 20cm (7.9") Newtonian (NERO-200DX)
with Televue Powermate 2.5× (Syn. f=3000mm, F15.0)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera: CELESTRON Skyris445C with IDAS IR-cut filter
Location: Hitachi city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: 25 flames/sec.×10sec., Exp....1/30sec
200 flames stacked & Wavelet process with Registax6


The crater of Aristarchus, positioned at the northern region of Procellarum, Ocean, is the brightest one in the lunar Earth side in spite of its small-scale (about 40km in diameter). The crater can be found at the southern side of a square plateau about 100km in side. The plateau contains the largest meandered valley of Schroter, you can appreciate those features with high powered telescope view.

Gazetteer
Index Map
INDEXNAMECrater's Diameter
1Aristarchus40km
2Herodotus35km
3Diaphantus18km
4Krieger22km
AHarbinger, MONTES-
BSchroter, VALLIS-
CProcellarum, Ocean-
DImbrium, MARE-



Central Region of Imbrium, MARE
Around Procellarum, Ocean

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