Schickard & Schiller


Date & Time: May 17 2019, 22:41 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


This shot covers around a large crater of Schickard in south west of the Moon. The lava has poured into the crater and being fairly flat. You can see some bright mountainous features around this area, besides there are several regions filled by dark lava. This area has a little lower density of craters than typical mountainous distinct around southern pole.
A 81km-diameter crater of Wargentin just south of Schickard seems stump being buried with lava-like substance.


Gazetteer
Index Map
INDEXNAMECrater's Diameter
1Schickard227km
2Schiller179km
3Phocylides114km
4Nasmyth65km
5Wargentin81km



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