Lunar Crater: Vlacq / Moon 91.3(-) / 20230110
Getting in close to the moon … and closer still …
On that same night, in between the clouds, gusty winds, I continued to fly over as much craters of the moon as possible, testing out my new C8 to its limits. Previous posts already showed some of the other ‘interesting’ craters in some fine detail
So, why this crater … Vlacq?
Honestly, I had lost my bearings a bit. I wanted to capture Petavius, to see how this would compare with my image captured with the TS102 a couple of months ago
I went south from Janssen & Fabricius, and thought i was on target, a crater with a central peak and some rim in the crater floor. Petavius is, of course, more to the north of Janssen.
After processing and analysing the image, putting my compass and magnifying glass on the crater … I realised I had landed on a different plane … Vlacq (a little play of words, as pronounced in my language, this would mean … ‘flat’)
Vlacq is a prominent
lunarimpact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the
Moon, and appears
foreshortened when viewed from the
Earth. This crater is adjacent to the northeastern rim of the larger
Hommel, and to the northwest rim of
Rosenberger.
The interior floor of Vlacq has been resurfaced by
lava, leaving a nearly level base. The southwest half of the floor, however, is overlaid by ejecta from nearby impacts. In the midpoint of the floor is a rounded massif that is about 15 kilometers in length, being long along the northwest direction. The floor contains a number of tiny craterlets as well as several ghostly crater remnants in the western half. The most notable of these is a circular depression to the west of the central peak.
C8 EHD, ASI174MM, IR685, EQ6-R Pro
Photons: Barlow 2x, 720p 20ms Gain 200 164s 25% stacked
Photons: Barlow 3x, 720p 27ms Gain 200 169s 20% stacked
AutoStakkert, PixInsight, Adobe LightRoom
20230110 02:54 - 03:36cet
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