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Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters.

This is a mosaic of three pictures of an area to the south of the crater Copernicus down as far as Fra Mauro.  More detailed pictures of Copernicus and Eratosthenes can be seen on my north-west quadrant page.  Reinhold is a slightly older crater than Copernicus at somewhere between 1,100 and 3,200 million years.  It is 50 Km in diameter but some 3250 metres deep.  South of this is the Mare Nubium where Apollo 12 landed only 180 metres from Surveyor 3 which had landed there some 2½ years earlier.  Fra Mauro is also the subject of a more detailed picture.  The Montes Riphaeus are a chain of ancient mountains (about 4,000 million years old) which separate Mare Cognitum from Oceanus Procellarum.
The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and east.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 18th February 2005 at around 2100 UT, when the Moon was 10.0 days old.
Date and Time 18th February 2005 21:00 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope LX200 at prime focus
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/250", 10% gain
Processing Registax. Wavelet 1-2 = 10 
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