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(All of these images are from live, Earth-Based Telescopic Imaging (EBTI) sessions, provided by Charles R. Genovese of Independence, LA, taken with a 10" f/6 Newtonian, eyepiece projection, and a standard CCD camera). First-time visitors, stay right here.
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The Apollo 15 landing site near the Apennine Mountains. Note Hadley
Rille, which is only 1.5 km wide (.93 mile). This is comparable to an
Apollo Mapping Camera shot. (See Section 22). Click Here . |
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CCD image frame-grab of Copernicus. Field of view is evident since
this ringed mountain crater is 93 km (58 miles) wide and 3750 meters deep.
NASA almost sent a double Apollo mission, but the crater floor was found
to be too rough. (Section 31). Click Here |
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Great CCD image frame-grab from a live Earth-Based Telescopic Imaging
(EBTI) session. Tycho, one of the most prominent craters on the Moon,
and a source of many LTP reports. Crater is 85 km wide; 4850 m deep. (Section
64). Click Here |
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Rupes Recta (Straight Fault), 110 km long, height 240-300 m, apparent
width about 2.5 km. Not steep slope, but a rather moderate one of about
7-degrees. Crater nearby, Birt (17 km) with companion. Area: Mare Nubium.
(Section 54). Click Here |
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The Alpine Valley is 180 km long, with a cleft in its floor. (Section
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Aristarchus is an extraordinarily bright crater, visible also on
the night side of the Moon in Earthshine, center of a bright ray system.
Believed to have originated about 450 billion years ago. (Section 18).
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Always interesting CCD image frame-grab of a submerged crater (Stadius)
with incomplete low walls and crater pits in Sinus Aestuum, about 69
km wide. Note mountain range to the NE and signs of a crater chain to
the NW. (Section 32). |
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Area NW of Stadius is riddled with craters which continue further
north. Ejecta from the imact of the asteroid that struck the Moon and
formed Copernicus apparently formed this chain. (Section 32). |
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Located in the northern region of the Moon, Plato has a very dark
floor and is a large crater referred to as a walled plain, 101 km wide.
Note landslide on the the edge. (Section 03). |
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CCD image frame-grab of an area in Mare Nubium, almost devoid of
craters, but showing Mons Pico, a 2400 m high mountain, 15x25 km wide.
Mountains to the NW are the Teneriffe Mountains, 110 km long and heights
up to 2400 m. (Section 11). |
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This is Eratosthenes, a very prominent crater (58 km wide by 3570
m deep) with terraced walls and central peaks. The area to the East depicts
the termination of the Appenine Mountain Range. (Section 21). Click Here |
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Petavius, a 177 km wide crater (ringed mountain) with central mountain
chain, clefts and dark patches on. CCD imaging by Genovese showed features
inside that were allegedly too small to see with a 10" f/6. (Section
59). |
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Langrenus is a very prominent crater (132 km) with terraced walls
and hills and central peaks on its floor, located on the eastern edge
of Mare Fecunditatis. A beautiful sight through a telescope. (Section
49). |
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Humboldt is a typical walled plain (207 km) , whose floor has a
central mountain range, a network of concentric and radial clefts and
dark patches close to the wall. Best seen after Full Moon. (Section
60). |
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Clavius, one of the best-known walled plains (225 km). Small craters
inside Clavius are suitable objects for testing the resolution of small
scopes. An interesting crescent of craters crosses the floor from Rutherfurd,
decreasing in size. (Section 72). |
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Ptolemaeus is a large walled plain (153 km/2400 m) with numerous
pits and depressions on its floor. Most of the walled plains are believed
to have been caused by very large meteors or asteroid impacts. (Section
44). Click Here |
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Alphonsus, over 100 km in diameter, is a ringed mountain with a
central peak, rilles and crater pits on its floor, as well as dark halos.
This is an area of interesting LTP activity, one of the top 30 LTP sites
recorded by ALPO. (Section 44). |
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Archimedes is a very large (83 km/ 2150 m deep), very prominent flooded
crater with terraced walls centrally located on the Moon. See "Interesting
Features" for the report on the apparent anomaly, the "Archimedes
Platform". (Section 12 & 22). Click Here |