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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Sasserides and Gauricus lunar craters images

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 9x optical zoom
Total magnitude: 900x
Filter: No
Date: 11/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 captures video

          Sasserides (90 km), is a remnant of a lunar crater and is situated in the south of the Moon on crater Tycho's north and west of Orontius. The above images are turned backwards, as seen by a telescope.North is below and south is up.
This crater was so damaged and destroyed, that is hardly recognizable as a crater. Only a short section of the southwestern edge survived, the rest being overlapped or modified by the impacts of different sizes. The most notable of these is an arc of craters along the northern edge Sasserides consisting in P (21 km), G and C.
Sasserides was named after Gellio Sasceride (Sasserides) (1562-1612), a Danish astronomer and doctor.
 Gauricus (79 km), has the floor is very visible in these photos.

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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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HD telescope video with heart-shaped Deslandres crater on the Moon.

The video images of this article are upside down (north and south are reversed), as seen through the telescope. Images were stabilized in Sony Vegas 10, because the mount wasn't motorized. The quality of our atmosphere was very good and that is why the lunar surface details are clear.

 Deslandres (234 km), is a desintegrated crater of pre-Nectarian era, and is one of the largest craters on the Moon. I like to think it has a heart shape. Also note in the video below, the eroded crater Lexell (63 km) on its southeastern edge and Hell (33 km), a smaller crater, named for astronomer Maximilian Hell, on the west. Hell Crater, shows a central peak in the center, but not visible due to the shadow that covers the crater floor. You may also notice a line of small craters on the eastern crater floor of Deslandres.



Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: CelestronC8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX-130
Video mode: Full HD progressive 1920x1080
Filter: no
Date: 29/04/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10

Other large craters in this video, can be identified in the photo below, as Walther, Regiomontanus, Nonius, Sasserides and Orontius.

                                    The picture below was made on May 11, 2011.

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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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