Features on the Moon

This shows the landing site of the Apollo 15 mission (arrowed) near Hadley Rille. The mountain range is Montes Apenninus, with the landing site being just at the foot of these within the Palus Putredinis region.  The large crater is Archimedes with Autolycus to the right, then Aristullis with the central peak.

Apollo 15 Landing Site
Toucam 740 SC1.5 amp on
Prime on LX90 0.2m f6.3 (2x Barlow) AltAz
15fps 340 stacked
20nov2004 2012UT
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This shows the landing site of the most recent manned mission, Apollo 17 (arrowed), in a deep valley called Taurus-Littrow on the rim of the Mare Serenitatis. The lower expanse is Mare Tranquillitatis. On the boundary of the two is the larger crater Plinius with the smaller Dawes in the centre.

Apollo 17 Landing Site
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Prime on LX90 0.2m f6.3 (2x Barlow) AltAz
15fps 245 stacked
20nov2004 2043UT
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From right to left, the (larger) craters Aristoteles, Eudoxus and Cassini

Aristoteles, Eudoxus, Cassini
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Prime on LX90 0.2m f6.3 (2x Barlow) AltAz
15fps 306 stacked
20nov2004 2044UT
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When imaging this area I noticed the very long shadows being cast by Plato's rim onto the crater floor and by the peak slightly below to the left. I've overexposed this image a bit to show the shadows better. The peak is Mons Pico - 2400m/7900ft.  Another earlier image of Plato can be seen further down this page.

Plato
Toucam 740 SC1.5 amp on
Prime on LX90 0.2m f6.3 (2x Barlow) AltAz
15fps 435 stacked
20nov2004 2035UT
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A fine group of craters; from top to bottom Herschel, Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Alpetragius then Arzachel with a peak and a craterlet.  Ptolemaeus (the largest in this image) is 150km/93 miles across and 3048m/10000ft deep

Ptolemaeus et al
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Prime on LX90 0.2m f6.3 (+2x Barlow) AltAz
15fps 173 stacked
20nov2004 2041UT
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Rupes Recta is a fault line 110km in length with a height of 250-300m. The crater to the left of the fault line is Birt, with the larger crater Thebit to the right.

Rupes Recta
Toucam 740 SC1.5 amp on
Prime on LX90 0.2m f6.3 (+2x Barlow) AltAz
15fps 173 stacked
20nov2004 2049UT
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Catharina (i) - 104km diameter.  Note Catharina P, the ring on the crater floor

Cyrillus (ii) - 95km diameter

Theophilus (iii) - 110km diameter, central mountain is 2200m high

Catharina Cyrillus Theophilus
Toucam 740
Prime on LX90 0.2m f10 Alt/Az
15fps 240 stacked avi
14apr2003 2218UT
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Plato (i) - 101km diameter

The 180km long Vallis Alpes (ii) is also visible

                                                 
Plato/Vallis Alpes
Toucam 740 SC1.5 amp on
Prime on LX90 0.2m f10 AltAz
15fps 250 stack
26sep2004 2046UT
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Craters Pythagoras (i.), Babbage (ii.) and Oenopides (iii.)  Pythagoras is 128km in diameter, rim height is 5km.  There is a peak in the centre of the crater (visible)

Pythagoras Babbage Oenopides
Toucam 740 SC1.5 amp on
Prime on LX90 0.2m f10 AltAz
15fps 360 stack
26sep2004 2139UT
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