Observation by Philip Masding: Gassendi Crater

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Philip Masding

Observer

Philip Masding

Observed

2020 Feb 05 - 22:00

Uploaded

2020 Feb 06 - 08:34

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

10" LX200 classic
Skyris 445M mono camera
Baader red filter
Orion x2 Barlow for f20

Exposure

1/30 seconds

Location

Manchester

Target name

Gassendi crater

Title

Gassendi Crater

About this image

This time of the year is always the best for the moon due to it being high in the sky in the evening. The seeing was also good today so I thought I'd have a go at imaging Gassendi due to the nice rille system on its floor. The result certainly reaches the theoretical resolution of a 250 mm telescope. According to moon trek the smallest craters are around 800m in diameter or about 0.42 arcseconds

Files associated with this observation

Gassendi Red_20200205.jpg (370.0 kB)

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