Sharp images of Petavius crater on the Moon.

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If someone would give me a few choice spots on the Moon on which to visit , one of them would be Petavius (177 km) ​​crater for sure . I love this crater due to its ordered shape , especially the trench which starts at the western edge cutting the floor to its central mountains , looking through the telescope as a clock showing 20:00. This crack seems to end up in those mountains , but it bends to the north and continues less obvious to the northern edge of the crater .

The basin that can be identified as the darker area in the image above, is an extension of Mare Fecunditatis which narrows to a point giving birth to this " tumor " reaching Petavius's ​​northwest . Soldered the northwest edge of Petavius ​​, notice a smaller crater called Wrottesley (57 km) .

Top right in the last picture , is a bigger crater named Vendelinus .

All this region is at the southeastern Moon, or quadrant 2 of the 4 . Images are processings in Registax program of a video made with the telescope.

Age of the Moon: 15 days
Distance: 390.666 km
Phase: 95% (0% = New, 100% = Full)

Optics: Celestron C8"-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 02/09/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

Image of 16 August 2011.

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Snellius and Hase Photos by telescope

Snellius (83 km), a crater is located southwest of the crater Petavius (177 km) on the south-east of the Moon. Hase (83 km)  2.5 km in depth, in these pictures the western edge of the floor is in shadow, and Hase D (56 km), is completely in the dark, the southeast edge being only in the sunlight.
These one of the last pictures taken with my camcorder Sony CX 105 . From January 1, 2012 I have the new camera Sony CX 130.

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-inch telescope - Newtonian 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

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Wonderful Petavius ​​crater astronomical images through the telescope

Petavius ​​is the most beautiful crater on the south-east of the Moon. It has several interesting features: a wide margin, several central peaks and unusual rills.  These are the best images of the crater I made.

Petavius​​, is a noble complex crater, which extends nearly 100 miles from N. to S., with a very robust floor, crossed by many deep valleys, which includes a massive central mountain and one of the most remarkable cracks on the surface of the Moon visible from Earth.

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

Below are images processed in Registax.

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General Astronomy Video Petavius crater ​​by astronomical telescope

These videos present crater Petavius ​with stabilized images.

In clip number one, Petavius ​​is filmed closer. At 00:03, I slowed down the image, to analyze how the picture goes black by a shadow with a high speed. So in this video can be a unidentified flying object, or a bird could not be focused because of the speed.

The huge crater Petavius ​​floor, is seen a "rille", which starts from the center of the crater, and ends at the edge of the south-west. Overall, looks like a clock showing 20:00.






In clip number two, is Petavius and ​​craters surrounding it, as Snellius southwest of Petavius​​, Wrottesley, lower edge attached to its northwest, Vallis Palitzsch, Hase, and craters at boundary between light and shadow on the right of the video, such as Legendre and Adams, of who we see only the edges are in light, and their floor is dark.

Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: CelestronC8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: SonyCX105 at 7x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 700x
Filter: no
Date: 16/08/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10

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Craters near Petavius​-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

Near the great lunar crater Petavius ​​with diameter of 177 km are smaller ones like Wrottesley (57 km), Hase (83 km), Palitzsch (41 km), and Vallis Palitzsch (110 km), Legendre (79 km), which is in darkness in these photos, and Snellius (83 km). North of Petavius ​​is Mare Fecunditatis.

Wrottesley (57 km), lies on the northwest edge of the crater Petavius, and the southeastern edge of Mare Fecunditatis and has a depth of 2.3 km.
    This crater has a circular shape with a slight inward bulge to the south and a system of terraces that line the interior walls. The interior has almost no features, except for a central peak, which rises in the middle of the crater.
       Hase (83 km), lies southwest of Petavius ​​and Vallis Palitzsch and Palitzsch are attached to the edge of the northeast.
Crater rim was damaged and eroded by a long history of subsequent impacts. The most important satellite crater of Hase is Hase D (56 km), a crater that is located at the southern edge. Hase D is definitely deeper than Hase, because as you see in the picture, you can't see the floor of Hase D. The crater floor is in total darkness.
 
       Palitzsch (41 km), and Vallis Palitzsch (110 km), lies south-east of Petavius. Crater Legendre is located southeast of Palitzsch.
 Northeast end of Palitzsch forms the southern edge of Vallis Palitzsch, a lunar valley following the eastern edge of Petavius , ​​a distance of about 110 km. Crater rim is easily confused with the valley itself.
      Legendre (79 km), is a crater with a depth of 2.7 km. Onli the crater edge can be seen in these pictures. The floor is steeped in darkness, and therefore I will speak only on the edge, which is eroded by other small craters,  on the inside and the outside of it.

       Adams is a 66 km crater in diameter and 2 km deep. It was named in honor of three astronomers John Couch Adams, Walter Sydney Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.

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Petavius ​​crater floor-telescope Moon 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, Registax

Petavius ​​crater is a complex fractured crater from Imbrian era. One of the rille is easy to see, although some are a challenge to observe. This crack as a "ditch", visible on the floor in pictures, starts from one of the mountain peaks in the center, and continues until the edge of the floor to the southwest. It is a crater that was fisured due to magma was pushed fron the inside.
Petavius ​​has a massive central mountain complex and more rilles well defined.

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Petavius Crater (Video)

3 clips of Petavius crater ​​(177 km), filmed through the 8" telescope with the camcorder. In some images vignette on the edge  is present, but the area of interest for us is the large crater, impossible to overlook.
This crater is unique in its appearance on the surface of the Moon visible from earth, as it has the edge more special than other craters, a rim like a belt .







Videos by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 8x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 800x
Filter: No
Date: 16/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania Edit: in SonyVegas 10

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Petavius crater​​-telescope images

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 8x optical zoom
Total magnification zoom: 800x 
Filter: no
Date: 16/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone, video captures

          Petavius ​​(177 km), is a large crater, located southeast of Mare Fecunditatis and has 3.4 km in depth. Attached to the northwest edge is the smaller crater Wrottesley (57 km). At southeast are Palitzsch (41 km), Vallis Palitzsch (a monthly valley near the eastern edge of Petavius that has ​​a distance of about 110 km.), And Hase (83 km).

  Petavius​​'s outer wall is unusually large relative to its diameter, and displays a double rim along the southern and western sides. The convex crater floor was resurfaced by lava flows, and displays a system of trenches called Rima Petavius​​.
Central high mountains are a prominent formation with multiple peaks, which are reaching 1.7 km above the floor. A deep fracture goes from the peaks to the south-western edge of the crater.

The most favorable time to observe this crater through a telescope is when the Moon is only three days. From the fourth day, the crater is almost devoid of shade.

The picture below is reversed as seen through a telescope.

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