Kepler Home

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Kepler is an isolated formation about 550 Km south of Aristachus.  This picture almost joins up with my one of Schröter's Valley but I cannot make a mosaic of the two.  Kepler is 32 Km in diameter and 2750 metres deep and is surrounded by the Oceanus Procellarum.  It is less than 1,000 million years old.  About the only other feature of note in this picture is Tobias Mayer, 34 Km in diameter and 1600 metres deep, which is a much older feature at around 3,800 million years.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 25th October 2004 at 22:19 UT when the Moon was 12.6 days old. The scale markers are 100 Km north and east.
Date and Time 25th October 2004 22:19 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope LX200 at prime focus (FL 2500 mm)
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/500", 0% gain, 453 frames
Processing Registax. 108 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5 
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