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Schiller and Zucchius Craters, Bruce Rohrlach

Schiller and Zucchius Craters

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Schiller and Zucchius Craters, Bruce Rohrlach

Schiller and Zucchius Craters

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Looking southwest across Schiller crater with Zucchius at top-left. Schiller (179 km by 71 km) lies near the SW rim of the lunar disk, and is an unusually elongate crater with terraced walls that either formed by a low-angle grazing impact or from multiple (2-3) aligned/coalescing impacts as a meteor or cometary body broke up under the gravitational attraction of the moon just prior to impact. The highest point of the crater wall is 13,000 feet (4 km elevation) above the crater floor. The double ridge on the floor of Schiller comprises two short mountain ranges.
The pre-Nectarian age Schiller-Zucchius Basin occupies much of the upper half of this image. Bayer and Rost lie below and left of Schiller respectively.

Skywatcher 8 inch/f5, Lysterfield, Melbourne (16-12-2021).

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Schiller and Zucchius Craters, Bruce Rohrlach