Abulfeda and Almanon craters



Abulfeda and Almanon in Registax 17 frames ,95% lowest quality                                                                  -click to enlarge

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

        Abulfeda (62 km.) bottom-largest, is a Moon impact crater located in the central highlands of the Moon. To the north ic crater Almanon (49 km.). A chain of craters named Catena Abulfeda runs between the northern edge of Abulfeda and Almanon's southern edge, then continues with a length of 210 km in Rupes Altai.The chain crater in the photo is as a long crack.
The crater was named after Ismael Abul-Fida Kurdish,an historian who lived in the 14th century.
       Almanon (49 km.) Abulfeda-over's, is named after the calif Abbasid Al Ma'mun. Above it are two craters, a smaller one called Almanon A and B is the largest At the west of Almanon is Tacitus (40 km .). Almanon C is attached to the southwestern edge of Almanon.

The images below are snapshots of the same video I processed the one above in Registax 5.
The first photo is with the names of thecraters around Abulfeda.

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Lunar craters filmed through a telescope: Abenezra, Azophi and Geber.

Abenezra (42 km), Azophi (48 km), Geber (45 km), Abulfeda and Almanon (49 miles) are just a few craters seen in these images taken by the astronomical telescope, images that landmark south-central area of the Moon .

Many of these craters resemble each other in size, some are straddling each other, as Abenezra over Abenezra C (44 km).

We note here Almanon crater with its satellite craters Almanon A (10 km) and B (25 km) south of it, and C (16 km) stuck to east edge.

Crater that I like to watch here, is Geber, which is the most ordered of all, having the floor free of other small craters and lacks a central peak and its edge is almost perfectly circular.



Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX-130
Video Mode: Full HD 1920x1080 progressive
Filter: no
Date: 30/03/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10 FastStone

Image from 12 mai 2011.

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Video - Abulfeda and Almanon craters

Abulfeda and Almanon craters video.Processed image is here

Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian reflector telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 09/02/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania

Abulfeda (62 km.) is the biggest bottom of picture, and Almanon (49 km.) -are impact craters located in the central highlands of the Moon.

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Catharina and Geber lunar craters-images

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 11/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 video captures
          Catharina (100 km), is a Moon impact crater located in the mountainous south, and is located west between Rupes Altai wich is a steep slope,and Mare Nectaris at east. To the northwest is the Tacitus crater. In the north it borders Cyrillus and Teophillus. Catharina form a prominent group along with the two craters, which are framed by Rupes Altai. There is a difference between the ages of the three craters, their age increasing from north to south.
Catharina's edge is very worn and irregular, especially in the north wall where is Catharina P crater (46 km). Northeast wall is deeply affected by several small craters. The floor is relatively flat with a curved ridge formed by Catharina P.
            Eponymous of this crater is Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known Holy Great Martyr Catherine, who is a Christian saint and martyr, and is believed to have lived in the early fourth century.
          Geber crater is located halfway between Almanon crater at northeast  and the pair craters Abenezra and Azophi on southwest. Further to the southeast is Sacrobosco. Geber is 45 kilometers in diameter and 3510 meters deep.
The name of the crater comes from Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflaḥ or Geber / Gebir (1100-1150), the Muslim astronomer and mathematician of Seville.

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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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