Craters Helicon and Le Verrier. Telescope Images



Le Verrier (20 km) and Helicon (25 km) craters. 24 frames at 100% quality



Le Verrier (20 km) and Helicon (25 km) craters. 31frames at 100% quality

Le Verrier (20 km) and Helicon (25 km) are two craters located on the Mare Imbrium smooth plateau, south-east of Sinus Iridium. The two form a nice duo in an area devoid of other notable craters.

Helicon, is bigger in size as Le Verrier, but both have the inner edge terraced, and despite its small size, both have even a few mountain peaks on their floor. On the southwest rim of Helicon is a small crater called probably Helicon A.

The two images above are from a video processed in Registax program in which were used few frames, but the best of them. The Sun shines from the west if you are on the Moon. Note shades of colors on Mare Imbrium.

Age of the Moon: 9 days
Phase: 75% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 392.049 km

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

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Mons Piton,Piazzi Smyth,Montes Teneriffe-Northern Mare Imbrium

Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 to 5x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 500x
Resolution: 1920x1080, 25 fps
Filter: No
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Edit: Video stabilized in Sony Vegas
         In this stabilized video, the first that leaves the images is Cassini crater. Lying on the plateau that follows, which is Mare Imbrium (the north), there are few craters and mountain formations.
       Of these, I enumerate the first to disappear from the image on the right, which is Mons Piton, or Piton Mountain, a 2.3 km high mountain which is located on the east of Mare Imbrium , on the northwest of Aristillus crater and east of Mons Piton is also the flooded crater Cassini and on northwest is Piazzi Smyth small crater wich is 13 km in diameter. Also, on north-east of this massive are the Montes Alpes , which forms the northeast edge of the sea and are visible in the early part of the clip on top.

        Large crater just beginning to see to the second 05, is Plato 101 km in diameter.
Mons Pico 2.4 km high, is also an isolated mountain on the plateau is coming out from the left edge of the video on the second 02, and soon after, Montes Teneriffe, in the form of a fork with three heads.

The image above is to see where are the formations presented in this article. and is turned upside down as seen through a telescope.

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Montes Carpatus and Gay Lussac lunar crater

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 13/02/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video captures

         Montes Carpatus  are mountains that forms the southern edge of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. It has a total diameter of 361 km (224 miles). Carpatus mountains were named after the Carpathian mountains, located in Central Europe.
These mountains stretch from the western end begining near the crater T. Mayer (33 km), and on the east is a large area in wich Mare Imbrium, in the north, is joining with Mare Insularum on south. In continuation of this gap are Montes Apenninus, wich are other mountains that curves up toward the northeast.
Montes Carpatus has some series of peaks and ridges separated by valleys which were penetrated by lava flows. None of the peaks have received individual names, except one, Mons Vinogradov.
About 100 kilometers south away from the mountains is the Copernicus crater, and the irregular outer ramparts of this crater lie almost at the southern foot of Montes Carpatus. Also there is a smaller crater Gay-Lussac, which is attached to the southern mountains.

          Gay-Lussac (26 km and 800 m depth) is a lunar crater north of the crater Copernicus, and at the foot of the Carpathian mountains .The edge of the crater is slightly distorted, but generally circular. The interior floor is flat with no central peaks. There are a couple of depressions with small craters in the middle instead of a peak.Gay-Lussac A crater (15 km), is almost connected with the southeast edge of the crater Gay-Lussac.

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