Mercurius

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

This is an area in the far north-east of the Moon.  It is a difficult area to image because, not only are the features compressed by the perspective, but the light is never in the best position.  This picture was taken less than a day after full Moon so the area is illuminated and shadows are beginning to be seen. Mercurius is 70 Km in diameter but its depth is difficult to estimate.  Schumacher is the rather indistinct feature under the 'S' of its name, and is 63 Km in diameter.  The largest crater here is Berosus which is 77 Km in diameter, only a litle bigger than Messala at 75 Km. The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and east and apply at Messala. The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 16th November 2005 at 18:11 UT, when the Moon was 8.4 days old.

Date and Time	19th December 2004 20:53 UT
Camera	ToUcam 740K
Telescope	LX200 at prime focus with IR-pass filter
Capture	K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/33", 10% gain, 453 frames
Processing	Registax. 63 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-2 = 10

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