Kircher, Bettinus and Zuchhius - The Three Jesuits. (Bruce Rohrlach)

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Kircher, Bettinus and Zuchhius - The Three Jesuits.

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Kircher, Bettinus and Zuchhius - The Three Jesuits.

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

From left to right - the arresting trio of Kircher, Bettinus and Zucchius, the three Jesuits (also known as the western triplet). These 3 adjacent craters are of like size, and arranged in order of decreasing age.

Kircher - whose southern rampart rises 18,000 feet above the crater floor. Named after the German humanitarian, a Jesuit priest and scholar, sometimes called the last Renaissance man, important for his prodigious activity in disseminating knowledge.

Bettinus - with a crater wall rising 13,000 feet above the floor, and on which stands a grand central mountain whose brilliant summit is in sunlight a long time before a ray reaches any part of the deep interior. Named after Mario Bettinus, an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (1582-1657).

Zucchius - Named after Niccolo Zucchi (December 6, 1586 - May 21, 1670), a Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and physicist. In 1616, he designed one of the earliest reflecting telescopes. A professor at the Collegio Romano, Zucchi developed an interest in astronomy from a meeting with Johannes Kepler. He invented the concave reflecting telescope, and on May 17, 1630 was the first person to discover two belts on the surface of Jupiter.

Equipment: Skywatcher 8 inch/f5 Newtonian. NEQPro6 GEM. ZWO ASI1600mm Pro (red filter). Televue 5x Powermate.
Image capture software: Sharpcap.
Post-processing: Autostakkert, Registax, Lightroom, Topaz DeNoise.
Location: Seacliff, Adelaide, 04-03-2023.

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