The Lunascan Project presents
KEPLER
Directory - Section 30

Updated 20 Oct 2011
BRIEF DESCRIPTION

The dark background of Mare Insularum contrasts with bright ray systems from two main centers: the crater Copernicus (in the east) and, especially, the crater Kepler which dominates this area. Perhaps the best-known group of lunar domes is that situated north of the crater Hortensius. Other domes that can be seen through even a quite small telescope lie to the
west of the crater Milichius and to the south of the crater T. Mayer.Refer to your Anton Rukl atlas of the Moon, page 87.

EARTH BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:

Since many EBTI's are not kept long on the internet is best to use Google for these images.
Image - Kepler and Procellarum (Naoyuk Kurita)
Image - Kepler DMK

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar & Planetary Institute:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ (Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/ (Photo Gallery)

Lunar Orbiter Database
Encke, 29 km
Hortensius, 14.6 km
Insularum, Mare
Kepler, 32 km
 http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hires/lo3_m162.gif
Kunowsky, 18 km
Milichius, 13 km
Milichius, Pi
Milichius, Rima

APOLLO IMAGES:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ (Apollo Image Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/ (Apollo Surface Panoramas)

Davy Chain

ESA's SMART 1
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39467

LUNAR RECONNAISANCE ORBITER IMAGES
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/
Kepler's Central Peak (LRO)

RESEARCH NOTES
Kepler Image by Apollo 12 crew, AS12-52-7745 (LPOD)
Rayless Crater - (LPOD Lunar Photo of the day)
The Moon: Lunar Orbiter 3 (NASA)Kepler (Lunascan)
AS14-78-10378(H) - Oceanus Procellarum near Kunowsky (AOTM, SP-362)
Around Procellarum (Naoyuki Kurita)

ANOMALIES
LAC-024: (Source: 111,50) Crater Kepler comes under suspicion. "Astronomer Dr. Aniceto Lugo...in September (5th, 1954),...he had observed flashes of light inside crater Kepler on the moon."

LAC-054: (Source: EA,140A) Photo of three domes in the center of the crater Kepler.