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Mare Nubium is to the south of Copernicus and contains the landing site of Apollo 12. This picture also shows
the landing site of Apollo 14 in the Fra Mauro highlands.
The smaller scale combined with the lighting when these pictures were taken has made it difficult to pinpoint
the landing sites with the greatest confidence. Craters Copernicus and Euclides are the youngest in the picture at less than 1,000 million years. Copernicus is 95 Km in diameter and 3800 metres deep; Lansberg is 41 Km in diameter and 3100 metres deep; Reinhold is 49 Km in diameter and 3300 metres deep. The picture is a mocaic of two images taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 25th October 2004 at 22:57 UT when the Moon was 12.6 days old. The scale markers are 100 Km north and west. |
| Date and Time | 25th October 2004 22:56 and 22:58 UT | Camera | ToUcam 740K | Telescope | LX200 at prime focus (FL 2500 mm) | Capture | K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/500", 20% gain | Processing | Registax. Wavelets 1,2 = 10 |
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