Observation by Bill Leatherbarrow: Deslandres

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Bill Leatherbarrow

Observer

Bill Leatherbarrow

Observed

2025 May 05 - 21:18

Uploaded

2025 May 07 - 10:41

Objects

The Moon

Equipment

OMC300 Mak-Cass
ASI290MM camera
Astronomik IR 742nm filter

Location

Sheffield

Target name

Crater Deslandres

Title

Deslandres

About this image

A detailed view of sunrise over the great 'walled plain' Deslandres. Once known informally as 'Hellplain', after the crater Hell on its floor, it was briefly renamed Horbiger, after the Austrian crank and Nazi sympathiser Hanns Horbiger, before finally being officially named. It has clearly suffered an interesting and violent geological history, its floor scarred by secondary impacts, lava flows and infilling from ejecta deposits, all of which show up well under this low illumination.

Files associated with this observation

DESLANDRES_2025-05-05-2118_col 8,7_7-U-IR-Moon_lapl4_ap489.png (3.6 MB)

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