HD Video by astronomical telescope. Taruntius crater and western Crisium basin

These are astronomical telescope HD video images with Taruntius crater (56 km) and west of Crisium basin on the eastern Moon, as seen from Earth.


  The night of 30 to 31 January 2012 was one with an atmosphere quite clean, but very frosty. Images consequently come up to be satisfying with video camera mounted on the telescope.


In this video, I have extracted several frames in Registax program, to form some clear pictures that can be seen in the article: Taruntius crater and on the border of area Mare Fecunditatis-Tranquillitatis. Telescope Images .


  Also at 3:00 minute, the telescope moves it's attention to craters north of Taruntius, at Proclus (28 km), the bigger one Macrobius (64 km) on the west of the Crisium basin, and the beautiful crater called Picard (23 km)  located on Mare Crisium. Images in Registax of these craters, you can see in the article: Wonderful pictures of western Mare Crisium and crater Picard on the Moon .

I've talked more about these regions, in the articles specified above.



Optics: CelestronC8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5) motorized
Device: Sony CX-130
Video mode: Full HD progressive 1920x1080
Filter: no
Date: 31/12/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10

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Wonderful pictures of western Mare Crisium and crater Picard on the Moon

West of Mare Crisium 101 frames at 90% best quality in Registax.



West of Mare Crisium 252 frames at 75% best quality in Registax.



Picard crater 356 frames at 80% best quality in Registax.

In these images, we see Mare Crisium basin with several craters and the mountainous region that forms the southwestern edge of the basin.


Under this illumination angle of the Sun, we see more standout wrinkles on Mare Crisium. These are called Dorsum Oppel (west), and Dorsum Termier, south. These wrinkles are not the only ones on this basin.


Crater Picard (23 km) in these images (better seen in picture 3), seems perfectly round (but oval because of its position on the east Moon), and it's not like that, because it has some edge loops, the highest being on the east. I never saw this crater so prominent like in these images.


Note the flooded crater Yerkes (36 km) located west of Picard, more to the edge of the Crisium basin. Its west wall is high, but as we look to the east, the wall becomes smaller, becoming almost nonexistent.


On the Crisium basin, also observe a crater located south of Yerkes, called Greaves (14 km), which looks like Picard, but smaller in size. Climbing up the edge of the basin, we see its shadow projected onto the plateau, becoming an adorable beauty view. On the western edge of the Crisium basin, are sprinkled more satellite craters of Glaisher (16 km) and Proclus (28 km).


  Continuing to the south of the basin, we see that the collar that surrounds the Mare Crisium is increasingly taller and lace. Here, we see the Thebbutt (32 km) crater, and also satellite craters of some which are on the basin, as Picard and Lick (31 km). The latter is not visible in the picture because is in shadow, south of Greaves.

Image are processed in Registax of a video from which were taken between 101 and 356 frames, merged to form a single image.

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

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Lunar images through the telescope Proclus and Macrobius craters

The images through the telescope in this article, are craters located to the east of the Moon. In the first picture is seen almost entirely, Palus Somni, wich is the open stretch of land that is located west of Mare Crisium. Over Palus Somni, is visible in this photo a stripe whiter than the surrounding land, and is actually the ejection that remained after the impact that formed the crater Proclus.
Other craters in these pictures are: Macrobius, Carmichael, Hill and Lyell.

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

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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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Video by astronomical telescope-near Western Mare Crisium

This stabilized video presents west of Crisium Sea. The clip starts with the large crater Cleomedes (126 km) in the north of the sea. Images goes along the west of the sea, to south, when Macrobius and Tisserand craters appear, then the bright ray crater Proclus (28 km).

  We go forward and climb the Mare Crisium plateau, where we see two isolated craters: the smaller left is Peirce (19 km), and the bigger on right is Picard (23 km).

In the bottom-right corner begins to see a bit of Mare Fecunditatis.
We visually keep on eye the Mare Crisium, and we reach its southern edge, where Firmicus (56 km) and Apollonius (53 km) craters takes shape, and then there are two large plates: Mare Spumans, on the top, and Sinus Succesus on the bottom of the screen.



Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: CelestronC8" -Newtonian telescope, plossl20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 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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Macrobius crater west of Mare Crisium. Telescope images

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

         Macrobius crater (64 km), located north-west of Mare Crisium, although not very large in diameter, compared with small craters in the area, it is quickly to spot . It is on south-east edge of Lacus Bonitatis, a small sea. It has a depth of 3.9 km.

Macrobius's outer wall has an interior with multiple terraces. A little satellite crater Macrobius C (10 km), is on the western edge. In the center of the crater is a central mountain complex, and there is a small ridge in the west interior, but the rest of the floor is relatively with no features.

Crater Tisserand (37 km), somewhat smaller, is located on the east of Macrobius. It has a depth of 2.8 km.
The lunar crater Proclus (28 km), you can not miss it if you look through a telescope near Mare Crisium, because of the rays with a very high albedo, which starts from it, though is a small crater.

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Mare Crisium and Proclus crater through the telescope

In another article I posted a video of the Crisium Sea (the south), together with the Proclus crater, but in sunlight.
This time, the sea is seen with the sun at a lower angle, making the edges to reveal in the dark shadow, and more features, especially in the second part of the clip, which last time were full of light.

 

Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 7x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 700x
Resolution: 1920x1080
Bitrate: 16000, Fps: 50
Filter: No
Date: 16/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Edit: Sony Vegas Video

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Crater Proclus and Palus Somni in light-telescope images

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone, video captures
         Proclus (28 km), is a young impact crater located to the west of Mare Crisium, on the eastern shore of the Palus Somni (143 km). It lies south of Macrobius crater, 64 km, and northwest of the flooded crater by lava, Yerkes. Between Proclus and Yerkes, on the sea, are Lavinium and Olivium.


Proclus's edge is distinct polygonal shaped, the shape of a pentagon, and is not very high compared to surrounding terrain. This crater has a high albedo, the second after Aristarchus. The floor is uneven, with some small elevation.

The crater has a ray system that extends over a distance of 600 kilometers, and has an asymmetrical shape, with the largest rays in the northwest and northeast. Southwest is an arc caused by the impact. These features suggest an oblique impact.

Palus Somni, is an area of land which is unevenly along the northeastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis and Sinus Concordiae.

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