Registax crater Boussingault Moon Pictures by telescope

Picture 1: 24 frames
Picture 2,3,4,5: 228 frames
Picture 6.7: 60 frames

With these images processed in Registax, I've finished the series of articles in which I presented the amazingly beautiful crater Boussingault filmed on August 16, 2011, when I observed the crater. This crater is located at the south pole of the Moon.

Unprocessed images in Registax of this crater can be found here:
Astronomy Pictures by Telescope Boussingault crater .
Boussingault and Helmholtz craters.Telescope Pictures .

Video:
Astronomical Video lunar crater Boussingault by telescope .
Video by telescope. Helmholtz and Boussingault craters. Moon Astronomy .

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, Registax

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Astronomy Pictures by Telescope Boussingault crater

Boussingault (131 km), is a crater shown here in inverted images in different positions. The first two of this article, I think are the clearest. Area which includes the craters, is a very rough surface, at the extreme southwest of the Moon.
Helmholtz (94 km) and Neumayer (76 km) are located south-east of Boussingault.

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

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Pontécoulant crater. Pictures by telescope

Pontécoulant (91 km), is a prominent impact crater that is located in the south-east of the Moon, which has a depth of 1.8 km. Because of its position, appears oval in shape seen from the Earth and it is difficult to see much detail. Nearby craters Hanno (56 km) north-east, and on south, comparable in size, is Helmholtz.

This crater has a terraced inner wall, which is almost circular, but with an outward extension to the south-est.B The rim is somewhat affected, but retains many details. Pontécoulant partially overlaps Pontécoulant E (44 km), a crater wich is older, on the southern edge.

Crater's name is Gustave Doulcet Philippe, Comte of Pontécoulant (1795-1874), who was a French astronomer.

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

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List of south features of the Moon-Southern lunar Hemisphere

Southern hemisphere of the Moon is in rough terrain, heavily cratered and with mountainous areas.
At the poles, the sun is always at small angles, so this is creating a unique environment, but also some difficulties in interpreting the geological region.
The southern hemisphere of the Moon craters are very different in size, appearance and how they were formed by impacts in the past.
Personally, the most interesting craters on south, I find Tycho, a crater with rays showing a very high albedo, rays that are left behind from the initial impact, wich can be seen from Earth with the naked eye or binoculars.
Another great crater is Clavius​​, a large crater with other small craters lying inside it in a decreasing order to form a spiral.
Shiller is another crater, interesting to me because of its elongated shape similar to a caterpillar.
 On the southern hemisphere of the Moon seen from Earth, there is only a sea, Mare Nubium that penetrate down to the crater Pitatus.

There are not mountains on the Moon's southern hemisphere. Maybe were probably destroyed by countless impacts were.

Most notable craters of the Moon southern hemisphere, in alphabetical order, are:

Aliacensis
Apianus
Asclepi
Baco
Ball
Barocius
Biela
Blanchinus
Boguslawsky
Bosching
Boussingault
Brown
Buch
Casatus
Cichus
Clairaut
Clavius
Curtius
Cuvier
Cysatus
Deluc
Demonax
Deslandres
Fabricius
Faraday
Fernelius
Frisius
Gauricus
Gemma
Gruemberger
Hagecius
Heinsius
Hell
Helmholtz
Heraclitus
Hommel
Jacobi
Janssen
Kaiser
Kinau
Klaproth
Lexell
Licetus
Lilius
Longomontanus
Maginus
Manzinus
Maurolycus
Metius
Miller
Montanari
Moretus
Mutus
Neander
Nearch
Neumayer
Newton
Nonius
Orontius
Pentland
Picret
Pitatus
Pitiscus
Playfair
Poisson
Pontanus
Pontecoulant
Proctor
Rabbi Levi
Rheita
Riccius
Rosenberger
Sasserides
Saussure
Sempilius
Short
Scheiner
Schiller
Schomberger
Scott
Steinheil
Stofler
Tannerus
Tycho
Vlaq
Watt
Weiss
Werner
Wilhelm
Wurzelbauer
Zach


Seas:
Mare Nubium

Space missions on the south side of the Moon:
Ranger 9 was launched on March 24, 1965 by United States of America and was intentionally crashed on the lunar surface, on crater Alphonsus.
Ranger 9 was designed to achieve an impact trajectory and to transmit pictures of the lunar surface in high-resolution during the flight until the impact.
  Ranger 9 successfully transmitted 5814 images with a resolution of up to 1.5 m.

LCROSS United States launched the LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) which was deliberately crashed into the Moon's south pole on crater Cabeus on October 9, 2009
The mission was designed to search for water ice on the lunar surface and examining the resulting cloud, caused by impact. The mission ended with the discovery of significant amounts of water.

Moon Impact Probe was launched by India, and it was deliberately crashed on 14 November 2008 at the lunar south pole.
 It had 35 kg, and was released from Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Orbiter. It was equipped with a video camera, a radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer.

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

To see the photographic map of the south area of the Moon, view: Photographic map of the Moon: South Zone. Lunar Atlas.

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Video by telescope. Helmholtz and Boussingault craters. Moon Astronomy

A video with the Moon through te telescope with craters at the Moon's south terminal.
The two huge craters on right, Boussingault and Helmaltz are located close to each other and are seen in oval shape due to their position. Boussingault is easily recognizable because of its leveled interior walls.
Captures of this video can be seen here.



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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Boussingault and Helmholtz craters.Telescope Pictures

In the above images are seen two large craters at the lunar south pole. These are Boussingault of 131 km and 3.2 km depth, and Helmholtz which is 94 km diameter but its depth is still unknown. Another crater which is covered in darkness here, but close to the terminal and the Moon as seen from Earth, is Neumayer 76 km in diameter.

In front of Boussingault are its satellite craters that have located in the image above. These are:

Boussingault E (98 km)

Boussingault B (54 km)

Boussingault C (24 km)

Undo editsAbout crater Helmholtz features we have not talked about yet.
Its outer edge is worn and rounded, but not significantly. Edge can still be seen around the perimeter, although several small craters lies along the inner edge. Such a crater is located on the southeast interior wall, and a pair of them occupies the opposite wall inside the northeast. There are also a number of small craters in the north.

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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