J. Herschel Home

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J. Herschel is an old crater, around 4,000 million years old, situated in the far north.  It is 160 Km in diameter with few high walls supporting numerous smaller craters.  Anaximander to its north is 70 Km in diameter, 2800 metres deep, and of the same age.  Carpenter, however, is much younger at less than 1,000 million years, and is 61 Km in diameter and 2600 metres deep.  Similarly, Anaximenes is old and Philolaus much younger as can be seen from the fact that it overlays what looks like a much older crater
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 25th October 2004 at 22:36 UT when the Moon was 12.6 days old. The scale markers are 100 Km north and east.
Date and Time 25th October 2004 22:36 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope LX200 at prime focus (FL 2500 mm)
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/500", 12% gain, 409 frames
Processing Registax. 131 frames stacked. Wavelets 1,2 = 10 
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