Observation by Davide Pistritto: Campanus and Mercator surroundings

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Davide Pistritto

Observer

Davide Pistritto

Observed

2022 Mar 13 - 19:29

Uploaded

2022 Mar 22 - 01:38

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

Vixen VMC260L
ASI 178MM
Baader R+IR

Location

Bari, Italy

Target name

Moon

Title

Campanus and Mercator surroundings

About this image

During my session, my sight was kidnapped by this area.

Kies, on the eastern side of the frame has been partly fulfilled by basalts.

The complexity of rilles all over this area is astonishing and counterbalanced by some dorsae in the west in the Mare Humorum and by many superb craters: Vitello, Hippalus, Ramsden, Capuanus and Chicus, alongside with Capuanus and Mercator.

They all surrounds the Palus Epidemiarum, a small area from Imbrian period of 300 kilometers dimension.

In the middle of the palus, you can see a peculiar crater, Marth, with a concentric double walls on the inside.

Its dimensions are 7 kilometers diameter.

In the southern part of the border of Marth, you can see a tiny craterlet, with a real dimension of about 700 meters.

Files associated with this observation

2022-03-13-1929_Campanus_Mercator_Surroundings_pistritto.png (1.3 MB)

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David Basey, Bill Leatherbarrow, Manolo_Rodriguez

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