Lunar Region around Montes Appeninus (Steve Lantz)

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Lunar Region around Montes Appeninus

The trio of large craters close to the center of this image consists of, from the left going clockwise, Archimedes, Aristillus, and Autolycus, whose diameters are, respectively, 83 km, 55 km and 39 km. Below them stretching to the left is the lunar mountain range Montes Appeninus, whose highest peak is 5.5 km in altitude. Below and a bit to the left of Autolycus there is a small plain that pushes into the mountains with a rather large mountain on its right edge. The lunar base for the Apollo 15 mission was located at the left front of this small plain. I was having trouble loading the original AVI video into Registax, but upon some Web research, discovered that running a video through PIPP can serve to prescreen images and also save the result in an AVI file that will load properly in Registax. I elected to stack 20 out of the 1257 frames recorded due to the poor seeing.

The tech data are:

date and time = 1-4-2020, 20:31 MST

exposure = 0.007s

video duration = 60s, 1257 frames

lucky capture = 20 best frames

gain = 180

20 flats

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