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Plato, Bruce Rohrlach

Plato

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Plato, Bruce Rohrlach

Plato

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Some craterlets on the floor of the 101 km-wide Plato crater on a night of reasonable seeing.
Their widths in kilometres are labelled on the image.
The smallest crater visible is about 1.76 km wide, although smaller features are the albedo spots (light surface dusting) around some smaller craters that are no longer visible after the processing.
Skywatcher 8 inch f5 Newtonian (Seacliff, Adelaide, 6/9/2022).

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Plato, Bruce Rohrlach