Around Tranquillitatis, MARE


Date & Time: Sep 15 2011, 26:49, 26:50 JST(+0900), Record Time: 30sec. each
Mosaic of 2 flames
Optical: Kasai 20cm(7.9") Newtonian(NERO-200DX), afocal method with PanOptic 35mm eyepiece
Synthesized focal length f=2176mm (equivalent f=14790mm in 35mm film format)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Video Camera: Canon iVIS HF-S10
Location: Hitachi city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Mode...MXP(17Mbps), Program Auto
Lens...f=64mm (equivalent f=435mm in 35mm film format), Stop: F2.8
400 & 450 flames stacked & wavelet processed with Registax6


This is a close up shot of a round lunar sea of Tranquillitatis, MARE (Sea of Tranquility) spread at the eastern part of moon. We can detect various topographies on flat lunar sea. Especially around the northern region of the sea, you can see a gentle mountainous district near a boundary on the Serenitatis, MARE (Sea of Serene) and several outlines of "ghost craters" being buried under the lava.
This image includes some of landed points of lunar probes and/or modules. As you know on July 20th 1969, the first manned lunar lander of Apollo 11, the Eagle, landed at the southern edge of Tranquillitatis, MARE. All told 6 modules of Apollo project made soft landings up to Apollo 17 that landed at the foot of Taurus, MONTES. This space program made 12 Americans stand on the Moon. The Apollo 13 aborted to land because of explosion accident.

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Index Map
INDEXNAMECrater's Diameter
1Plinius43km
2Arago26km
3Ritter31km
4Sabine30km
5Delambre52km
6Taruntius56km
7Macrobius64km
8Vitruvius30km
9Marardi40km
10Cauchy10km
11Dawes28km
12Maskelyne24km
ATranquillitatis, MARE-
BSerenitatis, MARE-
CAcherusia, PR.-
DSomnii, PALUS-
ELand. point of APOLLO 11 (Jul 20 '69) USA
FLand. point of RANGER 8 (Feb 20 '65) USA
GLand. point of SURVEYOR 5 (Sep 11 '67) USA
HLand. point of APOLLO 17 (Dec 11 '72) USA



Around Serenitatis, MARE
Around Ariadaeus, RIMA

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