Move your mouse over the picture to see the names of the various features.
Stöfler is 129 Km in diameter and 4,000 million years old and is surrounded by many other craters.
Faraday, to the south-east must be more recent, but dates from the same period. Over to the left
of this picture is Tycho, the centre of a brilliant ray system which shows up well at
full moon.
The picture was taken with my ETX125 on 21st June 2003 at 03:03 UT when the Moon was 21.6 days old.
Lunar Phase: 275.6°
Colongitude: 168.4°
Date and Time: 21st June 2003 03:03 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: ETX125 at prime focus
Capture: K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/50", 0% gain, 369 frames
Processing: Registax. 180 frames stacked. Wavelet 1,2 = 5
And here is the same general area under the same lighting but at a larger scale. The larger scale and better deffinition show just how smoothe the floor of Stöfler is. The parcity of small craters implies that the floor is significantly younger than the crater itself.
I have a mosaic of this picture, with one to the north and another to the south, here.
The scale markers are approximately 100 Km north and west.
The picture was taken with my LX200 on 31st August 2010 at 04:47 UT when the Moon was 20.7 days old.
Lunar Phase: 288.9°
Colongitude: 167.8°
Date and Time: 31st August 2010 04:47 UT
Camera: DMK 21AF04
Telescope: LX200 at prime focus
Capture: ICCapture. 1/108", gain 716, 3465 frames
Processing: Registax. 109 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5, gamma 1.2
Focus Magic 2,100
And here it is with the light coming from the other direction. Tycho is just visible
on the left. The light is much higher over Stöfler and the smoothness of its floor is visible.
The picture was taken with my LX200 on 19th December 2004 at 17:51 UT when the Moon was 8.4 days old.
Lunar Phase: 77.2°
Colongitude: 5.4°
Date and Time: 19th December 2004 at 17:51 UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 at prime focus
Capture: K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/250", 9% gain, 305 frames
Processing: Registax. 72 frames stacked. Wavelet 1,2 = 5
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