Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters.
This is the east-north-east just to the south of my picture of Mercurius and north of Mare Crisium. Gauss is a major crater, 182 Km in diameter with only a small central mountain. A closer view of Gauss is shown below.
The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and west and apply at Bernoulli.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 16th November 2005 at 19:20 UT,
when the Moon was 15.5 days old.
Date and Time: 16th November 2005 19:20 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 at prime focus with IR-pass filter
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/33", 3% gain, 612 frames
Processing: Registax. 82 frames stacked,
wavelets 1-2=10, gamma 1.6
A close-up picture of Gauss, taken with my X2 teleadaptor lens in visible light.
The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and west and apply at Berosus. They show just how distoted pictures are this close to the limb.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 with X2 lens on 16th November 2005 at 18:56 UT, when the Moon was 15.5 days old.
Date and Time: 16th November 2005 18:56 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with X2 lens
Capture: K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/50", 23% gain, 485 frames
Processing: Registax. 174 frames stacked, wavelets 1-4=10
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