Astronomy Question What crater is this? Neper or Banachiewicz? Images in Registax

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This area of the Moon is the Far East. Images shows Mare Undarum and around it craters of different sizes. Towards the edge of the Moon, we find a depression like a crater of a big size. Through, I searched the area on the Internet and Google Moon, I found no crater in that place. Perhaps it was the Moon phase fault at this time at that moment, and made the shadows to create an illusion that would lead to a such look of the area.

If in he area of the picture below is the crater, then there are only two possibilities: either it is Banachiewicz crater (92 km), or is Neper (137 km). Im inclined to think it is Banachiewicz, because Neper is too far. But can also be Neper, because in the photos, seems to have a central peak, which Banachiewicz does not have. If it is someone who has studied more this area, I would like please to respond to me in a comment.

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-inch reflector telescope-Newtonian, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 14/08/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax

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Astronomy lecture.Western Mare Crisium.Pictures by telescope

These captures of western Crisium sea through the telescope, are presented in another article: Video by astronomical telescope-near Western Mare Crisium.
There are many present craters on this large area, and I will only talk about features that were not discussed before.

We start with Burkhardt crater (57 km), which is located between craters Geminus (86 km), on north, and Cleomedes on south.
Burckhardt is located on two slightly smaller-sized craters on the opposite sides, producing a triple crater formation. Burckhardt E (39 km), is covered by the southwest quadrant of Burckhardt's, while Burckhardt F (43 km), is covered by the northwest quadrant. Crater rim is circular, but somewhat irregular in shape. There is a central peak near the midpoint of the crater floor.

Stucked in the western edge of the crater Cleomedes, is Tralles, and to the east of Cleomedes is the crater Delmotte (32 km), a small crater, whose characteristics are difficult to see because of its position.

Continue to the next photo description below, are craters Macrobius and Tisserand, 64 and 37 km, crater ray Proclus (28 km), and west of Proclus is Palus Somni , an area of 143 km,.

In the third picture below, there are many small craters on the surface of the sea, but also on its edge.
Peirce crater (19 km) with Picard (23 km), are those who are most "into the sea" of Crisium.
Picard's interior has a series of terraces, which seismologists have attributed to a collapse of the crater floor. The lowest point of the crater floor is about 2000 meters below its rim, and has a small hill in the center.

Other craters located further to the edge of the sea are Yerkes (36 km), Lick (31 km), Greaves (14 km), and Glaisher crater (16 km).

Yerkes crater (36 km), it seems interesting, because its inside was almost completely flooded by lava, leaving only a shallow remnant edge above the sea, and the edge is the most visible in west. The floor has a similar albedo with the large Crisium sea, so Yerkes's features are not distinct by surroundings.

About craters Firmicus (56 km) and Apollonius (53 km), I will speak in another article dedicated to them.

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 to 8x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 800x
Filter: no
Date: 08/16/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture, FastStone Image Viewer

Above are images processed in Registax.

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Condorcet crater (video)-east side of the Moon

         This stabilized video shows the east the Moon, large craters below Mare Crisium.
Photographs of this video are here.
Firmicus crater (56 km) is located southwest of Condorcet.
The atmosphere was not quite good, but there are moments of clarity.



Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8"-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 7x optical zoom
Total magnification: 700x
Filter: No
Date: 16/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Editing: Video stabilized in Sony Vegas 10

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Mare Undarum in light-Moon images through my telescope

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony HDR CX105 ay 7x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 700x
Filter: no
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 video captures

Mare Undarum is located on the east side of the Moon seen from Earth, and has an area of 243 kilometers. It has an undefined shape as we can see in the image of this article.

As a location, the neighbors of this sea are Dubyago (Dubiago) crater to the east, the crater has the highest margins in the east side, Firmicus (56 km) to the west, which has a dark floor similar to Mare Crisium.
Condorcet crater (74 km), lies to the north of the sea, which has a restored floor by lava and has a large dark patch showing on west-side floor, and Condorcet P (6 km) and F (37 km) are located inside the sea.

         Mare Undarum has a flat surface, devoid of features, but is full of mountain formations, so those who do not know where it is, below, I edited a photo in which I put names to locate the lunar formations easier.
You can find the video of this pictures here .

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Condorcet crater-Lunar images south of Mare Crisium

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 to 5x optical zoom
Total magnification: 500x zoom
Filter: No
Date: 16/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone, video captures

         Condorcet (74 km), is a lunar crater that is located in the eastern part of the Moon on south-east of Mare Crisium North-east of Condorcet are craters Hansen (40 km) and Alhazen-or-Hasan (33 km ).

Outer edge of the crater Condorcet is eroded, and the lowest level is along the northern wall. Condorcet Y crater (13 km), lies in the northwestern edge. The interior has been transformed, leaving a flat, with almost no features, marked only by a few small craters. The interior has a large dark spot in the western half, but the rest is about the same as the surroundings.Condorcet has a depth of 2.7 km.

 

 

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