Craters on the Moon Hagecius and Biela images.

243 frames in Registax.

In these images processed in Registax, we see many craters located near the southern end of our natural satellite, the Moon, as we see it from Earth.

Observe crater with Hagecius (76km) with Hagecius A (61 km) which seems like a spoon under these lighting conditions.

Hagecius has many small satellite craters that are found on the floor and around it. Their names can be seen labeled in the picture above.

Another interesting crater is Biela (76 km), which has a shadowed floor at this phase of the Moon and that is why it appears to be deeper than it actually is. It is the same size like Hagecius.

Other craters that are neighbors of the above ones, are Nearch and Rosenberger.

Age of the Moon: 17 days
Phase: 90% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 399,796 km


Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 03/09/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

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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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Nearch and Hagecius craters-amateur telescope images

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

Picture above is for guidance and I made ​​it on November 4, 2010, which is now a year and a month.
Nearch and Hagecius are craters situated on the south side of the Moon.

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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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Nearch Jacobi and Boguslawsky-South Moon craters

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B

C

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 10/02/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10, video captures

In photo A: craters Hommel, Vlaq, Pitiscus, Rosenberger, Nearch (76 km) and Hagecius (76 km).

         Nearch (76 km) is an impact crater, situated on the south-east region of the Moon, south-east of the crater Hommel. North of Nearch is Vlacq, and north-east lies Rosenberger. Nearch is 76 kilometers in diameter and 2.9 km deep and dates from pre-nectarian era, now 4.55 - 3.92 billion years ago.
The outer edge of the crater has been affected by small craters, which overlap along the eastern edge. The most important of these is Nearch A (43 km) on south-east edge. Small craters are found on the north and west. The rest of the interior walls are relatively intact, and retains its circular shape.


          Hagecius (76 km), this crater forms a triangle with crater Rosenberger on north-west and Nearch on west-north-west. Like other craters, Hagecius was undergone further erosion of the impacts. South-eastern edge is overlaped by three smaller craters called Hagecius C (24 km), B (34 km) and G (30 km).

In photo C: crater Mutus, Manzinus, Jacobi (68 km), Boguslawsky (97 km), Tannerus (29 km), Kinau (42 km) and Sempilius (70 km).

      Jacobi (68 km), has a margin of several overlapping craters along the southern edge, including Jacobi J (19 km), and a pair on the north side. The result is that the outer edges are flat along the north and south sides. On the north side, Jacobi A, forms a member of a chain of craters, forming a line on the floor inside, from north-east to south-west.

        Boguslawsky (97 km) is located near the southern edge of the Moon. It lies northwest of the crater Demonax, and south-west of Boussingault (131 km). Due to its location Boguslawsky appears elongated.
 Crater floor is flooded and with no many features. The edge is low. Crater Boguslawsky D is on the east side.
The name comes from the Palm (or Palon) Heinrich Ludwig (Pruß) von Boguslawski (7 September 1789-5 Iun 1851) who was a German professor of astronomy.

         Tannerus (29 km). The edge of this crater is almost circular, with only a slight inward bulge along the northern edge where it is joined with Tannerus P (20 km). Edge is clear and well defined, although there are small craters along the border in the west and south. Crater floor is without marks or features.
Crater name is given from Adam Tanner (in Latin, Tannerus) (14 April 1572 - May 25, 1632) which was an Austrian Jesuit professor of mathematics and philosophy.

         Kinau (42 km), is a mile deep. Kinau may date from the pre-nectarian era, 4.55 - 3.85 billion years ago. North-western edge of the crater walls was strongly affected by the impacts, and is overlaid by a pair of small craters, bowl-shaped. The remaining edge is distorted into a hexagonal shape, with the small craters along its rim. The interior walls are relatively low and the interior floor is with almost no characteristics. There is a small rise near the middle of the crater.
The crater is named after 19th century German priest, teacher and amateur astronomer Adolph Gottfried Kinau.

          Sempilius (70 km).  The crater may also date back to pre-nectariana, 4.55 - 3.85 billion years ago.Sempilius was affected by impacts and is relatively circular.The crater is named after Hugh Sempill (or Semple ) (Latin Sempilius) (between 1589 or 1596, and 1654) which was a Scottish Jesuit mathematician and linguist.

To locate craters above, I've described crater names in the picture below, taken on 14/11/2010.

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