Vallis Rheita Home

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This is a close-up view of the northern part of the Rheita Valley which is really a string of overlapping craters which starts on the western edge of Rheita crater and extends in all about 500 Km to the south-east, passing through Young and Young D on the way.  Also shown at the very top of the picture is a long narrow crater which appears to have the single designation Rheita E.  I feel that it must have been formed either by a grazing impact or (more likely) by the overlapping of several small craters.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 1st September 2004, when the Moon was 17.7 days old.
Date and Time 1st September 2004 23:18 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope LX200 with X2 lens attached
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/250", 42% gain, 316 frames
Processing Registax. 198 frames stacked. Wavelet 1-3 = 10
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