Photo Gallery Archive by astronomical telescope April 29, 2012

Photo Gallery Archive by astronomical telescope April 29, 2012: Planets like Venus, Mars and Saturn, and Moon craters.

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Libration of the Moon and Vlacq and Rosenberger craters by astronomical telescope (video).

Craters Vlacq and Rosenberger (89 km-96 km) are two notable craters on south of the Moon. The two are different. The first mentioned has sharp edges and distinct interior walls, but the second, Rosenberger, is eroded and bombed by many smaller impacts, with blunt edges and no terraced interior walls. Put in comparison, the first is how you would look to a new house, and the other as a patrimonium house. Vlacq, has a mountain located centrally on the floor, near which there are also two small craters.

In the photo below, made ​​in 16.08.2011, observe craters with their names labeled, to know what craters I've discussed in this article. Note that there is a difference between the shape of craters of the photo and the shape of craters in the video : in video, are more oval, which means that the Moon was bending more forward, causing craters to be less visible. This phenomenon is called libration or oscillation.

Moon libration acts as a slow moving back and forth of the Moon as seen from Earth, which allows an observer to see the slight differences of the surface at different times..




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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List of Moon's center features. Astronomy lecture

Craters at the center of the lunar disk, as seen from the Earth, are the most visible because their entire structure is facing us, revealing the floors and their perfect detail, even with a modest telescope. On the center, there are many features, such as mountains, seas (mare) and large craters. Apenninus Mountains are easily spotted, and craters as Eratosthenes, Copernicus, the great crater Ptolemaeus but others that can be found in the lists below.

The craters on the Moon are named after great personalities of the branch of science such as astronomers, mathematicians, inventors and not only.

The results of the links may not have as title the craters, mountains or other features you are looking for, but in the content of the articles, those features are presented.


Craters of the Moon's center area.

Abulfeda
Agrippa
Almanon
Andel
Aratus
Albategnius
Alpetragius
Alphonsus
Argelander
Arzachel
Airy
Blagg
Bode
Bonpland
Bowen
Bruce
Bumham 
Cone
Conon
Copernicus
Davy
Delambre
Dembowsky
Dollond
Eratosthenes
Flammarion
Fra Mauro
Gambart
Gay Lussac
Godin
Gylden
Halley
Herschel
Hind
Hipparchus
Horrocks
Hyginus
Klein
Lade
Lalande
Lassell
Lindsay
Marco Polo
Mosting
Muller
Murchison
Oppilzer Pallas
Pallas
Palissa
Parrot
Pickering
Playfair
Ptolemaeus
Reamur
Reinhold
Rhaeticus
Ritchey
Saunder
Schroter
Seeliger
Sommering
Sporer
Stadius
Sulpicius Gallus
Taylor
Thebit
Triesnecker
Turner
Ukert
Vogel
Wallace


Seas of the Moon's center area.

Mare Vaporum
Mare Nubium
Mare Cognitum
Mare Insularum
Mare Imbrium


Mountains of the Moon's center area

Montes Apenninus
Montes Carpatus
Montes Riphaeus


Other forms of relief on the center area of the Moon.

Sinus Aestuum
Sinus Fidei
Sinus Medii
Lacus Felicitatis
Lacus Odii
Lacus Doloris
Promotorium Taenarium
Rupes Recta
Rimae Alphonsus
Rimae Ariadaeus
Rimae Bode
Rimae Vladimir
Rimae Bradley
Rimae Flammarion
Rimae Gay Lussac
Rimae Hadley
Rimae Hyginus
Rimae Oppolzer
Rimae Yangel
Rimae Parry
Rimae Reamur
Rimae Schroter
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus
Rimae Triesnecker

Space missions on the center area of the Moon.

Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 14
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17

Luna 5 (1965) USSR due to a malfunction, it crashed on the lunar surface.

Ranger 7 (1964) USA- intentionally crashed, and successfully sent 4308 images with a resolution of up to 0.5m.

Surveyor 3 (1967) USA has landed successfully transmitted images to Earth 6326.

Apollo 14 USA-Extravehicular Activity (EVA). On February 5, 1971, the crew of Apollo 14 landed on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro formation near Cone crater.


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

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