Rheita and Metius

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The crater Rheita is 71 Km in diameter with walls 4000 metres high.  It is situated in the rugged highlands in the Moon's south-eastern quadrant. This is not an easy area to image.  The Vallis Rheita is a string of overlapping craters which starts on the western edge of Rheita crater and extends all the way down to the bottom of the picture, in all about 500 Km long.  Metius is slightly bigger at 90 Km and is 3000 metres deep. The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 18th November 2005, when the Moon was 17.6 days old.

Date and Time	18th November 2005 21:28 UT
Camera	ToUcam 740K
Telescope	LX200
Capture	K3CCDTools. Low gamma, 1/25", 37% gain, 558 frames
Processing	Registax. 110 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5, gamma 1.2

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