The Carpathian Mountains Home

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

The Montes Carpatus represent the south-western boundary of the great Imbrium basin. They are 290 Km long and rise to 2400 metres, which is quite low compared to the other great mountain chains outlining Mare Imbrium; the Juras rise to 6000 metres, the Apennines to 5400 metres, and the Caucuses to 3650 metres. There is a conspicuous lack of mountains on the western side of the Imbrium basin and one wonders what happened to the mass that must surely have been thrown up my the massive imbrium impact.
In some ways the most interesting crater in this picture is Pytheus, right at the top. There is a detailed picture in the VMA, taken by one of the Apollo missions, that shows Pytheus to have what looks to me like near vertical walls right to the floor, one of which cuts the edge of a small crater.
The picture was taken in the infra-red with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 12th November 2005 at 18:20 UT, when the Moon was 11.4 days old.
Date and Time 12th November 2005 18:20 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope LX200 at prime focus with IR-pass filter
Capture K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/33", 33% gain, 453 frames
Processing Registax. 138 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5, histogram 0-200 
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