Fracastorius crater on the Moon through a telescope

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Fracastorius (124 km), is a crater that looks more like a sinus, as Sinus Iridum. This crater is located on south plateau of Mare Nectaris. In these images, sunlight floods in abundance all craters.

Fracastorius has a smooth floor, with nothing different from the Nectaris basin. Northern edge of the crater, was demolished or molten by lava that penetrated through the area. Some subsequent small craters appeared on the floor, and the distinct ones are called Fracastorius L (5 km) and M (4 km).


Crater has very many other satellite craters lined up on the west side, and to the south. On the west side, we meet larger craters, called Fracastorius H (21 km), Y (12 km) and D (28 km) between them.

Image processing in Registax of a video that have taken a various number of shots, merged to form a single image.

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

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

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Crater Fracastorius Video by astronomical telescope. Description and location

Fracastorius (124 km), is the remnant of a lava flooded crater, located at the southern edge of Mare Nectaris. Northwest of the crater formation is Beaumont and north-east is Rosse.

North wall of this crater is missing which gives a form of horseshoe. Mare Nectaris lava invaded the crater, so that looks like a great extension like a golf. The remaining edge is strongly affected and covered by small impact craters. The most prominent of these craters is Fractastorius D, which overlaps part of the western rim.
Maximum altitude of the rim is 2.4 km.
Fracastorius has no central peak, but only a thin crack crossing the middle of the floor from east-west.
The crater is named after the Italian scientist, astronomer and poet Girolamo Fracastoro, "Fracastorius" (1478-1553).

A short video showing Fracastorius crater through the telescope.



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: 20/07/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10

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HD video Telescope images of lunar crater Fracastorius

We are on the south-east of the Moon, south of Nectaris basin and north of the crater Piccolomini. The area is taken over by a horseshoe-shaped crater named Fracastorius (124 km).

There are many craters on the Moon with this form, as Julius Caesar, Doppelmayer, Meton's satellite craters, or Sinus Iridum.

Fracastorius crater name is given for the poet Girolamo Fracastoro Italian physicist and astronomer who lived in the 14th century and early 15th century. From one of his poems derive the name of syphilis disease.

These superb video of crater Fracastorius in sunlight, is made by my astronomical telescope on which was attached a video camera on the eyepiece. I made some pictures from this video in Registax which optimized multiple frames. You can actually visualize them in the article Fracastorius crater on the Moon through a telescope.

Moon Age: 17 days
Phase: 93% (0% = New, 100% = full)
Distance: 396.848 km






Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 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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Photos by telescope Craters around Nectaris basin

Piccolomini, Rupes Altai, Janssen, Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina, Fracastorius, are just some of the features around Mare Nectaris, visible in these video caprtures.

Abulfeda and Almanon craters are in the dark in these images, and just inside the western edges are lit by the sun.
Mare Nectaris (Sea of Nectar), is dating back 3.9 billion years, framed by several rings of lava formed after the impact. It is a small, well-defined circular basin with an affected southern edge forming a large bay, Fracastorius crater (124 km). Mare Nectaris joins Sinus Asperitatis north.

Rupes Altai is 480 kilometers long, with somewhat a sinuous wall along much of its length. Is parallel to the southwestern border of Mare Nectaris, and actually forms a part of the external ring of Nectaris basin.

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20 mm Plössl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 04/27/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture, FastStone Image Viewer

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Mare Nectaris

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The images below are snapshots from video

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Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-N telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 09/02/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 Registax

 Sea of Nectar (Mare Nectaris)-plateau above on the left in the pictures, is filled with volcanic lava and is situated between Sea Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) and the Sea of Fecundity (Mare Fecunditatis). At south east of Mare Nectaris is a small crater like a point known as Rosse crater (12 km.). Mare Nectaris is 101.000 km ² and it is a bay of the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis).

        At the bottom of the sea you can see a horseshoe-shaped crater called Fracastorius (124 km.).
     The two craters, which are intertwined in the left of photos are Theophilus and Cyrillus, and the one that looks like Theophilus and Cyrillus, little lower, is called Catharina. A chain forming like mountains are Rupes Altai and at the end is Piccolomini crater (88 km.).

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