Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters.
These two craters are in the deep south; Boguslawski at 72.9° and Demonax at 78.2° south. Consequently they only show up well under conditions of favourable libration, and here it was almost as favourable as it can be at -5° 59' in latitude and 7° 5' in longitude. Boguslawski is the older of the two at more than 4,000 million years with Demonax between 3,800 and 4,000 million years.
Scale markers are unhelpful in a picture so near the pole. The south pole is just beyond the left-hand side of this picture, and Boguslawski is 100 Km in diameter.
The picture was taken with an Atik camera attached to my LX200 on 25th March 2007, when the Moon was at first quarter (7.5 days).
Date and Time: 25 March 2007 20:00 UT
Camera: Atik 1-HS and Hα filter
Telescope: LX200 at prime focus.
Capture: K3CCDTools. 33% gamma, 1/50", 68% gain, 316 frames
Processing: Registax. 253 frames stacked. Wavelets 1,2 = 10, , contrast 120
And here a close-up view using my SLR teleadaptor lens.
The picture was taken with an Atik camera attached to my LX200 on 25th March 2007, when the Moon was at first quarter (7.5 days).
Date and Time: 25 March 2007 19:43 UT
Camera: Atik 1-HS
Telescope: LX200 with X2 lens
Capture: K3CCDTools. 33% gamma, 1/50", 30% gain, 335 frames
Processing: Registax. 263 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-3 = 10.
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