Lunar craters. Images by astronomical telescope. Deslandres (Registax).

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Of course, the most impressive feature that captures your attention in these images is the huge crater Deslandres (256 km). Despite its size, it can not be detected by simple binoculars, but through an astronomical telescope. This is not strange because Deslandres, even if it is very large, is not quite so deep to be distinguished visually observed when using a small power instrument, and thus is easily confused by the surrounding land.

Deslandres is a remnant of a crater, very affected. It is located south-east of the Mare Nubium on the southern part of the Moon.

In size, it is the second-largest crater on the visible Moon after Bailly crater, which is 303 km.

Other neighboring craters of this huge crater, are Oronţius (122 km), Walther (128 km), Sasserides, Regiomontanus (126 km), Pitatus (97 km) and Ball (41 km). . Embedded in Deslandres crater, are small crater Hell (33 km), and Lexell (63 km).

These images processed in Registax are extracted from a video which can be viewed here.
Simple video capture in this article are posted here.

Info Deslandres crater.

Coordinates	32.5°S 5.2°
Diameter	256 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	5° at sunrise
Eponym	Henri A. Deslandres

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 for orientation dated April 29 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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Observational Astronomy. Sasserides lunar crater.

Sasserides (90 km) is located north of the crater Tycho (85 km).

Images are upside down, as seen through the telescope and the cardinal points described in the article do not take account of this.

On the edge and around the crater Sasserides are a cocktail of smaller satellite craters of Orontius (122 km) and Ball (41 km).

Moon Phase made ​​these craters to be well viewed and defined, very clear images.

Sasserides crater name is given from Gellio Sasceride (Sasserides) (1562-1612), who was a Danish astronomer and doctor. He worked as an assistant to Tycho Brahe. Maybe that's why Tycho crater is nearby.

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

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 10/03/2014
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone Image Viewer

Image for orientation from 29 april 2012.

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Sony handycam Astrophotography. Deslandres near terminal.

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The processed video images above are much clearer than the video captures from another article. We can notice the difference in the still image below, in which I labeled each crater.

In these images that are upside down as seen through the telescope, are craters situated on the southern hemisphere of the Moon, where they are numerous, deep and large.

The large "heart" lying on the right side is a heavily eroded crater which was  formed by a major impact, Deslandres, a crater whose features are well brought out in the light on this Moon phase, and in which the terminal is near the crater, at east.

On the uneven floor of Deslandres (234 km), we observe the smaller one, Hell (33 km), whose name fits here, being fully submerged in darkness, as Ball crater (41 km), located at the outer edge on the west of Deslandres.

Other craters visible images are Orontius (122 km), Sasserides (90 km), Walther, Regiomontanus
(128/126 km).  
Video captured images: Deslandres and the surrounding craters. Astronomical telescope images.

Info Deslandres crater.

Coordinates	32.5°S 5.2°
Diameter	256 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	5° at sunrise
Eponym	Henri A. Deslandres

Age of the Moon: 7 days
Phase: 51% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 384.488 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 29.04.2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Images in Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

 

Video capture.

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Tycho in total darkness Photos by telescope

In these images, we see some of the south Moon craters, near the terminal (the boundary between light and dark). The most splendid it seems to be crater Tycho (85 km), which appears as a perfectly black circle, because is sunk in darkness. I never saw Tycho in such light conditions yet.

On 10 January 1968, Surveyor 7 was the fifth and final spacecraft in the Surveyor series that made a landing on the Moon. Surveyor 7 was the only one that landed the lunar high land.

Landing took place about 75 km north of Tycho.
The mission was a complete success, sending more than 21,038 photos and 100 hours of surface composition data.

An interesting crater located northeast of Tycho, is Sasserides (90 km). It has an irregular shape, which in my opinion is formed by two impacts. The only region where the crater is circular, is the western edge. The floor is full of small craters and larger craters are located on the edges of the crater, as Ball C (31 km), F (12 km), B (10 km), G (28 km) and Sasserides P (21 km).

Moon age: 7 days
Stage: 51% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 384.488 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plössl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 29/04/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture, FastStone Image Viewer

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Deslandres and the surrounding craters. Astronomical telescope images

These images are very clear, as the camera focus was best. In the pictures here, we have the huge crater Deslandres (234 km) north of the bright crater Tycho.  To view the telescope video of these photos, go here.

A very bright rays of Tycho with high albedo, are spread on the whole region, but these are not seen in the photos because of the Moon phase at that time, when the Sun was at a low angle.

The picture below explains in great detail all craters located inside of Deslandres, and neighbors, as I labeled them each name with color. Images are inverted as seen through the telescope.

As you can see, this area is very rich in craters of all sizes, feature which is common to the south of the Moon. In these pictures, are craters like: Lexell, Sasserides, Walther, Orontius, Hell, Nonius and others.

Info Deslandres crater.

Coordinates	32.5°S 5.2°
Diameter	256 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	5° at sunrise
Eponym	Henri A. Deslandres

Moon age: 7 days
Stage: 51% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 384.488 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plössl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 29/04/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video captures, FastStone Image Viewer

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