Apenninus, MONTES & Archimedes


Date & Time: Jul 22 2000, 26:27 JST(+0900), 1/40sec. Exp.
Optical: TAKAHASHI 12.5cm(4.9") fluorite refractor, afocal method with LV12mm eyepiece
Synthesized focal length f=1592mm (equivalent f=8533mm in 35mm film format)
Auto-guided with GOTO MX-II Equatorial
Digital Camera: OLYMPUS C-2020Z
Location: Ooizumi vil., Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Mode.....SHQ (1600×1200, high-quality JPEG format)
Lens.....f=19.1mm (equivalent f=105mm in 35mm film format), Stop: F2.8
CCD sensitivity.....ISO400, White Balance.....Auto


This picture has captured central north area of the Moon. A wide plain occupying almost the entire image called Imbrium, MARE (Sea of rain), and you can see a bow-shaped mountain range of the Apenninus, MONTES in south of the sea. And a crater just north of the range is the Archimedes with a diameter of 83km. The crater is very aged one with its inside filled with dark lava.
An area squeezed between the Apenninus, MONTES and the crater of Archimedes is called the Putredinis, PALUS (Marsh of Putrefaction). A spacecraft of LUNA 2 launched by ex-Soviet made a hard landing around the northern region of Putredinis, PALUS. The spacecraft was the first artificial object reached the Moon; it was in 1959, only two years later of launching of the first satellite Sputnik 1. This mission was the beginning of lunar probing competition between USA and ex-Soviet in the middle of a cold war.

Gazetteer
Index Map
INDEXNAMECrater's Diameter
1Archimedes83km
2Aristyllus55km
3Autolycus39km
4Eratosthenes58km
5Timocharis34km
6Manilius39km
7Cassini57km
8Copernicus93km
AApenninus, MONTES-
BHeamus, MONTES-
CImbrium, MARE-
DNebularum, PALUS-
EAestuum, SINUS-
FVaporum, MARE-
GSerenitatis, MARE-
HPutredinis, PALUS-
iLand. point of LUNA 2 (Sep 13 '59) USSR
JLand. point of APOLLO 15 (Jul 30 '71) USA



Around Archimedes
Copernicus & Apenninus, MONTES

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