Observation by Chris Dole: Aristarchus on the terminator.

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Chris Dole

Observer

Chris Dole

Observed

2017 May 07 - 20:06

Uploaded

2017 May 10 - 15:27

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

180mm Maksutov Cassegrain @f24
ASI224mc Camera
ZWO 850nm IR Pass Filter.

Location

Newbury. G.B.

Target name

Aristarchus

Title

Aristarchus on the terminator.

About this image

25 miles in diameter and 2.3 miles deep. Very bright as the impact is fairly recent, 450 million years, if you can call that recent! Space weathering hasn't darkened the exposed material yet.

Files associated with this observation

Aristarcus 2017-05-07 2106UT.jpg (23.9 kB)

Like this image

Bill Leatherbarrow, Dawson, Peter Carson, Steve Knight

Comments

Dawson, 2017 May 10 - 22:27 UTC

Chris, a nice capture. I love the horse shoe shaped Prinz crater, and the shadows cast by its remaining crater rim. Have you used Quickmap, it has a great tool where you can draw a line across lunar features and it creates a plot of the contours (the x and y axis aren’t in proportion though unfortunately) but it is a fascinating tool, I’ve attempted to attach a screen shot here.

James

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