Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various craters.
This rugged area seems to have no name. The Jura mountains are those that arc around the Sinus Iridum and represent what is left of the ring wall of the original crater that forms the sinus. All the major craters here are of a similar age, between 3,200 and 3,800 million years and have formed on what presumably is the rubble ejected by the formation of the crater that became the Sinus Roris.
The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and east and apply at Sharp.
The picture was taken at the prime focus of my LX200 when the Moon was 12.3 days old.
Lunar Age:
12.3 days
Colongitude:
61.3°
Date and Time
27th March 2010 23:20 UT.
Camera
DMK 21AF01.
Telescope
LX200 at prime focus with Astronomik OIII filter.
Capture
ICcapture. High gamma, 1/91", gain 856, 4163 frames.
Processing
Registax. 5 alignment points 380 frames stacked. Wavelet 1-2 = 10.
Focus Magic 1,100. Home Back to SE Quadrant