Good shoot of Zach crater on the Moon through telescope.

426 video frames in Registax.

1 video frames in Registax.

240 video frames in Registax.

Zach (71 km) and Lilius (61 km) craters are located in a beautiful but "disturbed" area of the Moon, with craters of all sizes, namely the south of it.
Zach has a diameter of 71 km and a depth of 3.7 km. It seems though elongated seen from Earth as it is located near the edge of the Moon.

The name of Zach crater comes from Baron Franz Xaver von Zach (Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach) (June 4, 1754 – September 2, 1832) was a Hungarian astronomer born at Pest, Hungary (now Budapest in Hungary). He studied physics in Pest, Hungary, and served for some time in the Austrian army.
He taught at the University of Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). He lived in Paris in 1780-83, and in London from 1783 to 1786 as tutor in the house of the Saxon ambassador, Hans Moritz von Brühl. In Paris and London he entered the circles of astronomers like Joseph de Lalande, Pierre-Simon Laplace and William Herschel. In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg director of the new observatory on Seeberg hill at Gotha, which was finished in 1791.

Other craters that are visible in photos are Moretus (114 km), Deluc (47 km), Gruemberger (94 km), Cysatus (49 km), Curtius (95 km) and Short (71 km).

In the picture below are labeled craters and other lunar features in the region. To better understand this photo, you should note that the label with the name or the letter of larger craters could be found at their center, and on the small craters, you should find them around them, usually above.

Moon Age: 9.05 days
Phase: 70.5% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 399.221 km

Optics (telescope or lenses): Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, eyepiece 20mm Plossl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 10/03/2014
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax,  FastStone Image Viewer

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Craters on the Moon: Moretus Gruemberger and Cysatus

Note here an area where I had always loved to turn my telescope, namely Southern Moon, where are numerous craters of all shapes. Moretus (114 km) is the most beautiful of them, but I have will not talk about it here. There are plenty of other articles in which is described in details.

As a new observation for me, are the two craters northwest of Moretus, called Gruemberger (94 km) and Cysatus (49 km), because I have never seen it with this look, like at this phase.

Although Gruemberger is eroded, with very worn edges, at this phase looks to be more "ordered" than it actually is.

I'm pretty sure that you guys like what you see in these pictures. I can not take my eyes off that high peaks in sunlight at the edge of the Moon. The heights are not mountains, but the edges of craters which lies between the seen and unseen side of the Moon.

Other craters seen here are Curtius (95 km), Zach (71 km), Pentland (56 km), Sempilius (70 km), and Short (71 km).

Info Moretus.

Coordinates	70.6°S 5.5°WCoordinates: 70.6°S 5.5°W
Diameter	114 km
Depth	5.0 km
Colongitude	7° at sunrise
Eponym	Théodore Moretus

Moon Age: 9.05 days
Phase: 70.5% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 399.221 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 10/03/2014
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone Image Viewer

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Moon's south region. Mutus and Nearch craters.

Astronomy can be amplified for you if you like this science, observing the Moon through a telescope. What you see in magazines, internet, documentaries, is not like what you see when you put your eye to the eyepiece of the telescope.

With a medium telescope like mine, I enjoy here the observation of south pole of the Moon, a place of many craters. You can not reach this place but only with a powerful aircraft to get you there, and a suitable cosrum to survive. But it is still difficult to land on such rugged area, and thats why you can not find in the history of flight to the Moon, missions that have been carried out on its south pole.
We notice here two notable craters: Mutus and Nearch.

Age of the Moon: 17 days
Phase: 93% (0% = New, 100% = full)
Distance: 394.960 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5) motorized
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 31/12/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone Image Viewer

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Southern cratered Moon through a telescope.

Craters south. 303 frames at 83% best quality, Gaussian, in Registax.

Craters south. 8 frames at 90% best quality, Gaussian, in Registax.

In the area south of the Moon, there are so many small craters, I do not know with which to start:
 Mutus, Hommel, Vlacq, Rosenberger and Pitiscus.


Age of the Moon: 17 days
Phase: 93% (0% = New, 100% = full)
Distance: 394.960 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5) motorized
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 31/12/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

Photo above is for guidance and was made in February 9, 2011

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Images with numerous craters on the Moon's south by astronomical telescope Maurolycus Barocius Stofler Heraclitus

In these images, we see the southern craters of the Moon, which are many in number and of all sizes. Most visible at the bottom of the image, are such as Stofler and Maurolycus, Heraclitus and Licetus, Lilius, Jacobi, Curtius, continuing to the edge of the Moon, on which craters are starting to become more oval and less noticeable in detail because of their position, as Hommel and Pitiscus, left.

Pictures are sharp and with fine details, considering they are captures of a video. The two large craters on the Moon, on the top in the pictures, are Mutus and Manzinus. On other evenings, the moon craters of the edge of lunar disk are not so far away, because the Moon has a periodic tilting forward and backward, and so are times when some of the craters are visible, and periods when they are no longer seen at all.

All regions of these pictures are wrapped by Tycho's rays. They are best seen here passing over Stofler and Maurolycus.

These video captures were chosen as the most clear, lacking as much as possible of aberration that gives Earth's atmosphere, which is often guilty of distortion of craters in images. Choosing the frames is quite difficult and much time involved in developing the film frame by frame. Conditions for choosing the best frame for the image to be catalogued the best, are, to be clear, free of atmosphere interference as much as possible, and the focus of the camera to be the best, which has times when is not focusing on desired region.

Moon age: 7 days
Stage: 51% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 384.488 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plössl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 29/04/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture, FastStone Image Viewer

The photos above were taken in February 10, 2011. In them you can see some craters in first pictures of the article, including those on the edge of the Moon.

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Mutus and Manzinus Photos by telescope

Craters in this area are very dense and chaotic. Manzinus/Mutus pair of craters and make it an easier orientation.

Mutus and Manzinus are craters at the Moon's south pole. Mutus has a diameter of 79 km and a depth of 3.7 km. Although a relatively small crater compared to other craters in the area, Mutus has many small satellite craters from Mutus A to Mutus Z, only that there are not I and U. Mutus B and V are the two craters visible on its floor.

Manzinus is closer to the Moon's south, and is bigger than Mutus, with a diameter of 98 km. It has no large craters visible on the floor as Mutus.

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20 mm Plössl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 04/27/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture, FastStone Image Viewer

The above image is made in February 13, 2011.

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Close-up pictures of the nice crater Moretus near the South Pole of the Moon.

     Of all the craters located in the south of the Moon, Moretus (114 km), it seems the nicest of all. Perfectly round, symmetrical terraces on the inner wall, and even the mountain top on its floor seems perfectly located in the center. The other craters are irregular shaped, with scalloped edges of other smaller impacts. The beauty and symmetry of the crater, earns its place in this 'disturbed' area by many impacts. Moretus is the first crater that strikes your attention when looking at the south pole of the Moon.

     Moretus, is an impressive circular crater dating from Erathostenian era, located on the south of the Moon, near the central meridian. Look at the deep terraced walls and central prominent peak. North-west, are craters Cysatus and Gruemberger. Northeast and east, are Curtius, Zach, Pentland, and Simpelius, and to south are observed Short and Newton.

Info Moretus.

Coordinates	70.6°S 5.5°WCoordinates: 70.6°S 5.5°W
Diameter	114 km
Depth	5.0 km
Colongitude	7° at sunrise
Eponym	Théodore Moretus

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-inch reflector telescope-Newtonian, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 20/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capturea

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Demonax crater. Pictures of Moon through the telescope

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 captures, FastStone Image Viewer

 

Demonax (114 km), is a large crater with a depth of 3.9 km, located near the lunar South Pole, and has a relatively comparable size with the nearby crater Boussingault (131 km), which is partially visible in the images above.
 In the photos in this article, the floor of Demonax crater is not visible because the Moon inclination in 16 August did not allow this. This is also because the Sun was on a small angle.

 

We need to know that the Moon does not have its own fixed axis, but is leaning forward and backward within a month, making craters in some periods to not always be seen the same.This phenomenon is called wobble.

 

 For example, these craters are on the south of the Moon, and we can not see the floor of Demonax (as in the old photo below of 10 February), this means that the northern Moon craters are more visible, even more craters on Moon's North terminal. This means that in August 16th, the Moon was inclined forward.

 

Other craters of these photos are Boguslawsky and Manzinus.

 

                      Picture of the craters on the Moon's south pole, made on 10 February 2011.

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