Moon - Copernicus crater (Tom Gray)

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Moon - Copernicus crater

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Moon - Copernicus crater

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Copernicus a 93km impact crater dominates the centre of my image, in mare insularium and overlooked by the carpatus mountains, which border the southern edge of mare imbrium. This range lies around 100km from copernicus and is 360km in diameter. They were formed as a result of the impact within the imbrium basin [Wikipedia].

Taken at native f10 in my 1989 Meade 2080 LX5. This image comprises 30 x 0.0625s frames automatically stacked and tracked, at 50% quality with a medium edge filter applied after 10 frames

The mouseover is taken at f20 (4000mm) comprising 100 x 0.3536s subs, with a hard edge filter applied after 10 frames. You can see the terraced inner walls and 30km rampart which descends nearly 1km to the floor. There are three peaks (2 clearly visible in my image) which rise 1.2km above the floor.

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Description: This 'close up' image of Copernicus is taken at f20 (4000mm) in my 8" SCT. It comprises 100 x 0.3536s subs, automatically stacked and tracked in Meade Envisage, at 50% quality with a hard edge filter applied after 10 frames.

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