Hercules, Atlas and Endymion craters

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 zoom
Filter: no
Date: 16/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone, video captures.

        Endymion (125 km), bigest-right corner, is a lunar crater that is located near the terminal northeast of the Moon. It is located east of Mare Frigoris, and north of Lacus Temporis. Southwest is the crater Hercules and Atlas craters. Because its location, Endymion looks oval. Beyond the crater is Mare Humboldtianum.

Endymion's floor was covered by lava, which gives it a dark appearance, and it makes it easy to locate. The floor is almost flat and featureless, with a few small crateres located inside. this crater has a depth of 2.6 km.

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Lunar crater Endymion and anomalies Astronomy Registax Images by telescope

Registax
Image 1: 54 frames, 90% Lowest quality
Image 2: 54 frames 90% Lowest quality
Image 3: 100 frames 85% Lowest quality frames
Image 4: 80 frames 80% Lowest quality
These are images processed in Registax.

Atlas and Hercules craters, are located on the northeast of the Moon. Each of them presents interesting features: one is the floor full of ditches and rough terrain, and two black spots opposite to each other, like Atlas, and one with a smooth floor and a deep and bright in sunlight small crater, found near the center, as Hercules.

Endymion (129 km), has also a smooth crater floor darker than the surrounding land, with no central peak. Californian amateur astronomer Bill Penn, while looking through his reflector telescope, in October 2009, noticed an anomaly on the northern edge of the crater, some glowing spheres.

He believes that most of the visible Moon from Earth, is hidden with holograms or other types of camouflage. Somehow, at 5:30 am on October 7, the camouflage has become inoperable or were closed for a short time, giving us a view of what is really there.

 I find this story interesting, especially because exactly where Bill saw the anomaly, there are three small craters on the floor, perfectly aligned and almost with identical dimensions.

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-inch reflector telescope-Newtonian, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 14/08/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax

Above is Endymion on August 16, 2011 from 4 frames and 95% Lowest quality.

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Video by telescope: Endymion, Atlas and Hercules Moon craters.

Video by telescope: Endymion,  Hercules and Atlas lunar craters.
This is the clearest video of these craters.
Endynion is near the north-east terminal of the Moon, near Lacus Temporis.
 Mare Humboldtianum is more closer to the edge of the Moon seen from Earth. This sea is not shown in video.



Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C-8"-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 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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Endymion completely flooded by darkness.

It was pretty hard to figure out what crater is in this picture as it is completely flooded by darkness. This is the crater Endymion (125 km), which I also presented on other occasions, but never under these lighting conditions.

Age of the Moon: 17 days
Phase: 93% (0% = New, 100% = full)
Distance: 394.960 km


Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20 mm Plossl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 31/12/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania

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Telescope pictures of the Moon. Hercules and Atlas craters.

Craters Hercules / Atlas (69/87 km), lies east of Mare Frigoris and form an unusual pair because they have different characteristics. But because they are close to each other, are easily memorized together by telescope observers.

Hercules is smaller, and has a small distinct crater in its center which best defines him, called Hercules G (14 km). Atlas is bigger with a wide inside edge and several low central peaks on its floor. Hercules, is bordered to the west by Lacus Mortis with crater Burg (40 km) in its center and Atlas have on the northeast the crater Endymion (125 km), which is located near the edge of the Moon as we see it from Earth .

Magnitude: -10.82
Phase: 0.46
Distance: 399.283 km
Illuminated: 45.6% (0% = New, 100% = Full)

Astronomical instrument: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope,
Eyepiece: Plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 30.01.2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone Image Viewer

In the picture below are labeled craters and other lunar features in the region. To better understand this photo, you should note that the label with the name or the letter of larger craters could be found at their center, and on the small craters, you should find them around them, usually above.

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North craters of the Moon-Lunar Features

            16 july 2011 picture of north's Moon through my telescope


           North of the Moon is less affected by craters, which are dispersed, leaving place to the large lava seas that covered them long time ago. I think that should be more craters on the north of the Moon, but they are covered by lava,and we will never have the opportunity to see them. Geological and cosmic chain of events occurred in its formation, made it look like we see it today.

          The Moon craters are named after great personalities of the branch of science such as astronomers, mathematicians, inventors, but not only (eg crater Michael Jackson, just north of the crater Posidonius).

          Notable craters on the north side of the Moon are Plato 101 km, Aristoteles/ Euxodus-67 and 87 km in diameter, Archimedes of 83 km, and Sinus Iridium (which would have to be a crater, but it was flooded with lava).

List of features on the North side of the Moon:

>Craters:

Alexander
Anaxagoras- young crater with ray system
Anaximander - crater without central peak

Archytas - almost circular crater with sharp edges
Archimedes-large crater without central peak

Aristoteles -presents  uneven crater floor
Aristillus-crater with ray system
Arnold - ancient crater rounded by other impacts
Atlas

Autolycus-have a ray system of 400 km.
Babbage-in this crater there is Babbage A, which is younger.
Baillaud - close to the Moon terminal.
Barrow
Bianchini
Bouguer
Burg - on the center of Lacus Mortis
Barrow-remodeled by other craters and lava flows.
C. Mayer - young crater with sharp edges.
Carpenter
Cassini - contains many craters on its floor.
Calippus - crater surrounded by Caucasus mountains.
Chacornac - distorted crater, irregular.
Challis - eroded crater and hit by older impacts.
Daniell - oval crater.
Delisle
Democritus
Epigenes - eroded crater.

Euctemon - renewed lava crater floor.
Euxodus-crater central peak not present.
Endymion - lunar crater located at the terminal with a low albedo.
Egede-a lava flooded remnant crater.
Fontenelle
Foucault
G. Bond
Galle - crater with sharp edges.
Gartner
Goldschmidt - crater eroded and incised by other impacts.
Grove
Gruithuisen
Hall
Harding
Harpalus
Heis
Hercules - crater with terraced inner walls.
J. Herschel - heavily eroded crater.
Keldish
La Condamine
Lichtenberg
Luther
Main - crater near the north pole.
Mairan - eroded crater.
Markov
Maupertuis
Meton - clover-shaped crater (three combined craters)

Michael Jackson - small crater, former Posidonius J.
Mason
Mitchell - crater attached to the edge of the crater Aristotle.
Mouchez - a remnant of a lunar crater.
Neison
Oenopides - old eroded crater.
Philolaus - crater with a pair of central peaks.
Plana
Plato - large crater filled with lava.
Poncelet
Posidonius - fractured crater floor.
Protagoras - circular crater.
Scoresby - crater with sharp edges.
Sharp - crater surrounded by mountains.
Sheepsharks
Sitter - forms a trio with other two craters.
 South
 Strabo

Timaeus - pentagonal crater with rounded edges.
Theaetetus - polygonal shaped crater.
W. Bond - irregular shaped crater.
 Williams

>Other formations:

Lacus Mortis - strange crater.
Sinus Iridium- a large crater with missing edge.
Vallis Alpes - valley that divides Montes Alpes the two.

Mountains:

Montes Alpes - named after the Alps of Earth.
Montes Apenninus - a wide range of mountain (Mons Huygens is the largest peak).
Montes Caucasus - the highest peaks reach 6000 m.
Mons Pico - isolated mountain on Mare Imbrium.
Mons Piton - isolated mountain on Mare Imbrium.
Montes Recti-mountain with a length of 90 km and width of 20 km).
Montes Spitzbergen - the edge of a crater.
Montes Teneriffe - mountain rises to 2.4 km.

>Seas:

Mare Frigoris - dates from the Imbrian era.
Mare Imbrium - formed when a massive object hit the Moon, and the lava flooded the crater.

>Missions on the north side of the Moon:

Luna 17 & Lunokhod 1 in 1970, was the first of two unmanned rovers that landed on the Moon sent by the Soviet Union, as part of Lunokhod program.

Video below shows the location of features on the Moon's northern hemisphere.



Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Total Magnification: 100x
Resolution: 1920x1080
Bitrate: 16000, FPS: 50
Filter: No
Date: 09/09/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Edit: Video stabilized in Sony Vegas


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

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