Around Procellarum, Ocean


Date & Time: Oct 13 1997, 22:09 JST(+0900)
Composed 2 images (2sec. & 3sec. exposured)
Optical: TAKAHASHI 13cm(5.1") Newtonian with Or6mm eyepiece (f=9800mm, F76.0)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera: VIXEN VX-1
Film: AGFAcolor XRG 400
Location: Kokubunji city, Tokyo


We can appreciate many small craters less than 50km in diameter in the Procellarum, Ocean (The Ocean of Storm) lying western region of the Moon. And we can realize several round features like gentle hill, those are called the "ghost craters". It has been created that lava filled normal craters. Noticeable one is lying about 60km north of the crater of Flamsteed, called "Flamsteed P". And a mountain range of Riphaeus, MONTES is also buried under basaltic lava, now original topography of the range has not been well defined.

Gazetteer
Index Map
INDEXNAMECrater's Diameter
1Gassendi110km
2Kepler32km
3Lansberge39km
4Reinhold48km
5Marius41km
6Flamsteed21km
7Encke29km
AProcellarum, Ocean-
B(Winter, MARE)-
CRiphaeus, MONTES-
DUral, MONTES-
ELand. point of APOLLO 12 (Nov 19 '69) USA
FLand. point of SURVEYOR 1 (Jun 2 '66) USA



Around Aristarchus crater
Around Grimaldi

Copyright(c) 1997 by Naoyuki Kurita, All rights reserved.
　To top page To Moon&Planets index