Moon: Close up of Copernicus (Marzolino85)

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Moon: Close up of Copernicus

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Moon: Close up of Copernicus

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Copernicus is certainly one of the most famous craters on the moon. It is visible using binoculars, and is located slightly northwest of the center of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere.

The circular rim (diameter 93 km) has a discernible hexagonal form, with a terraced inner wall and a 30 km wide, sloping rampart that descends nearly a kilometer to the surrounding mare. There are three distinct terraces visible, and arc-shaped landslides due to slumping of the inner wall as the crater debris subsided. The terrain along the bottom is hilly in the southern half while the north is relatively smooth. The central peaks consist of three isolated mountainous rises climbing as high as 1.2 km above the floor. These peaks are separated from each other by valleys, and they form a rough line along an east–west axis.

So that you can get an impression of the size, I tried to measure the resolution of the picture. Measuring the pixel width of different craters and compare it to their size I get a resolution of about 100 to 125 meters per pixel. So if a feature is defined as the differentiation between two different pixels, then the resolvable resolution of this image is about 200 to 250m. As a result, the whole picture shows a section of approx. 500 x 300 km.

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