Plato

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Plato is a large, circular feature 104 Km in diameter. It is some 3,500 million years old and is situated on the northern edge of the Mare Imbrium. It has a very flat floor which contains many very small craters only a few of which are visible in this image. This picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my 254mm LX200 with a X2 adaptor lens on 1st March 2004, a night of exceptional seeing, when the Moon was 9.7 days old. Small craters are named after a nearby large crater. Here you can see Plato A, B, C, and D.

Date and Time	1st March 2004 21:41 UT
Camera	ToUcam 740K
Telescope	LX200 with X2 lens
Capture	K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/50", 0% gain, 314 frames
Processing	Registax. 175 frames stacked. Wavelet 2-4 = 5, step = 2

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