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Schröter's Valley Schröter's Valley is a long sinuous rille some 165 Km long and mostly between 6 and 10 Km wide.  It begins, about 25 Km north of the crater Herodotus, with an elongated crater called "The Head of the Cobra" and winds north before veering to the west.  Herodotus itself is 36 Km in diameter and 1400 metres deep with a flat, lava-filled floor.  The most prominent crater here is Aristachus, 41 Km in diameter and 3000 metres deep.   It is a very youg feature at only 450 million years, compared to more than 3,000 million years for Herodotus and Schröter's Valley.
The picture was taken with a ToUcam attached to my LX200 on 25th October 2004 at 22:19 UT when the Moon was 12.6 days old. The scale markers are 100 Km north and east.
Date and Time 25th October 2004 22:19 UT
Camera ToUcam 740K
Telescope LX200 at prime focus (FL 2500 mm)
Capture K3CCDTools. High gamma, 1/500", 0% gain, 453 frames
Processing Registax. 108 frames stacked. Wavelets 1 = 10, 2 = 5 
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