Registax Maginus crater on the Moon. Lunar craters.

83 video frames, in Registax.

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Maginus (163 km) is an ancient lunar impact crater located to the southeast of the crater Tycho. It's a large formation almost three quarters the diameter of Clavius, which is in the upper left in the photo. North of Maginus is Proctor crater (52 km), and to the south is Deluc (47 km). Maginus has a depth of 4.3 km.

In the photos above, Maginus crater floor is very visible. Maginus A at the left of the crater, has a diameter of 14 km.

The area captured in these images is much wider. We can delight our eyes with craters in the vicinity, such as Orontius (122 km), Heraclitus (90 km) and Licetus (75 km).

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

Image of 29 April 2012.

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Astronomy through telescope. Crater Tycho in Registax.

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Tycho is without question the most interesting southern crater on the Moon. It is small but from it starts rays hundreds of kilometers around it.

Tycho (43ºS 11ºW) has a diameter of 86 km. It is a complex crater with a terraced interior wall and central peaks. This recent crater has a bright ray model, extending for hundreds of kilometers. Extensive impact secondary fields , are visible on the surrounding terrain.

Here, Tycho is half in the dark, shadow that bypasses the central peak on the floor, being left in the light.

The images captures a much larger area around Tycho, craters that are more in number which is a feature of the South. We can observe Orontius (122 km), Sasserides (90 km), Saussure (54 km), Maginus (163 km), Heraclitus and Licetus (90/75 km), Cuvier (75 km) and the list continues.
Since the telescope moved on a wider area, Registax program has taken all the frames and created a wonderful picture of the area.

You can watch the video from which I've extracted the images and simple video captures, in other articles.

170 video frames in Registax.

Tycho crater info.

Coordinates	43.31°S 11.36°
Diameter	86 km
Depth	4.8 km
Colongitude	12° at sunrise
Eponym	Tycho Brahe

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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(Video) Craters on the Moon seen clearly through telescope.

The south of the Moon is full of countless craters, where large basins of lava are missing. Craters Heraclitus and Licetus (90/75 km) are some of seen in these images processed also in Registax.

The astronomical telescope is pointed at the Moon's south pole, using motor tracking from Lacerta. Watch here craters as Heraclitus / Licetus (90/75 km) Maginus (163 km), Orontius (122 km), Tycho (85 km), Sasserides (90 km), Saussure (54 km).

The atmospheric quality has helped me quite a lot to shoot clear images of the area. The land in sunlight is white as milk. This color stops at the terminator at the large crater Clavius, where we encounter a hard penetrating dark.

The video was also used in Registax program to process images with higher quality, but also for simple video captures.

The video was made with the camera mounted on the telescope, to be more exact on the telescope eyepiece. To protect the telescope from vibrations, I used a tracking motor from Lacerta, and thus the image was more stable.

However, even with this tracking device for celestial bodies, there were vibrations of the telescope tube, causing the image to be slightly unstable. For this, I used the video stabilization option in Sony Vegas editing software, so the video was 100% correct on this issue.

Images processed in Registax, here.
Unprocessed images (video captures), of craters Heraclitus / Licetus are here.

170 frames, in Registax.

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: Sony Vegas HD Platinum 10.0

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Telescope video of Maginus and Clavius lunar craters.

Atmosphere quality was satisfactory during video recording. Some turbulence are observed, but there are moments of great clarity.
Craters seen here are  Maginus (163 km) și Clavius (225 km).

Video captures images are in this article.
Registax images are in this article.

The video was also used in Registax program to process images with higher quality, but also for simple video captures.

The video was made with the camera mounted on the telescope, to be more exact on the telescope eyepiece. To protect the telescope from vibrations, I used a tracking motor from Lacerta, and thus the image was more stable. 

However, even with this tracking device for celestial bodies, there were vibrations of the telescope tube, causing the image to be slightly unstable. For this, I used the video stabilization option in Sony Vegas editing software, so the video was 100% correct on this issue.

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: Sony Vegas HD Platinum 10.0

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Enjoying the Moon. Registax Images of Maginus crater on the Moon by telescope.

125 video frames, in Registax.

1 video frames, in Registax.

These pictures are processings in Registax. Many of the images of the same area and the same evening, were posted in other articles but those were simple video captures. For these however, I needed more time for images resulted from Registax, where images are clear and covers a larger area of the lunar surface.

On the south pole of the Moon, are the most numerous craters, as we see it from Earth, and the crater Maginus (163 km) on these images, deserves its place among the other notable craters. It is large in size and the edge is affected by other impacts. Its neighbors are Clavius (225 km) at southwest, and Heraclitus (90 km) at east. These craters are oval because their position on the Moon so they are seen obliquely, but they are round like Moon craters located in the center.

Image of 29 April 2012.

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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Registax. Heraclitus and Licetus. Moon's south craters seen through the telescope.

122 frames, in Registax.

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These pictures, contains a larger area of the southern Moon. Some are framed in the same image, four notable craters, as Tycho (85 km), Maginus (163 km), Orontius (122 km) and Heraclitus (90 km). Images are upside down for a better view of the southern part of the Moon, and are processed in Registax program, which helps greatly to the image quality of any cosmic bodies seen by a telescope.

Light shining over the craters, is perfect for viewing their details.
Heraclitus and Licetus (90/75 km) are beautifully described in this phase among the craters of the surroundings.

Licetus crater , is better defined than divided crater Heraclitus, and dates from the pre-Nectarian times.
It is still a crater affected with some other small craters located on the edge, and along the inner wall. Most notable are on the inner edge of the southeast and the northwest.

Licetus's floor is relatively flat, with a few bumps in the southern half. There are also some small craters in the south-west and east.

The crater is named after Fortunio Liceti, an Italian philosopher and physicist who lived in the 17th century.

 Other images of the area on the same day.

229 frames, in Registax.

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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The largest crater on the lunar south. Clavius crater Registax Images.

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Porter (52 km), Rutherfurd (48 km), Blancanus (105 km), Maginus (163 km) and Clavius. These are craters from these images. Some are in the shade, others partially, and others visible in all their splendor.

Clavius (225 km) crater is the most notable. I was not able but only now to notice its features in more detail. We can see its floor and inner southern edge more clearly on this phase of the moon.

Clavius crater can not be detected in any way with the naked eye but only through binoculars or a astronomical telescope, because it has no high albedo, nor the rays of the impact that produced it, even though its diameter is very large.

On its floor, observe famous craters in an arc shape that characterizes it. This chain is puzzling in my opinion. It is clear that there is a close link between them, all from the same body that disintegrated before impacting the lunar soil. But my question is, until which crater extends this arc? If we listed from the smaller up to the largest, they are: Clavius J (12 km), N (13 km), C (21 km), D (28 km), and Rutherfurd, the largest, located on the edge of of Clavius.

But isn't it possible that in this chain to be one more crater, and greater than Rutherfurd, one which is located outside of Clavius, which is called Gruemberger? It's very unlikely, because it does not follow the direction of the arc of craters, although it seems, in these pictures, it would end the series of craters. Besides, Gruemberger (94 km) is much older, with a blunt edge but the arc craters have sharp edges well defined.

Another problem would be is why these craters on the floor of Clavius, are arched? Is it possible that the large body from which these craters have formed, may have changed its direction when it decomposed before impact? How can this be?

I think of another answer of the problem. Is it possible that this arc of craters may have occurred from another cause? Maybe is not from a body in space, but right from the Moon. Maybe, just maybe, after another more powerful impact formed a crater somewhere on the surroundings, and the remains excavated during the collision with that body, were shattered at a great height and were returned to the lunar soil, as an arc shape. It would be the most plausible explanation.

Which is the surrounding crater, I do not know, but certainly must be new, in the same period of the arc of craters.

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

Moon Age: 9.05 days
Phase: 70.5% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 399.221 km - See more at: http://lupuvictor.blogspot.ro/2014/11/how-do-craters-looks-through.html#sthash.i45s0V0P.dpuf

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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