A12 & A14 - Ocean of Storms, and Frau Mauro Landing sites (David Haviland)

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A12 & A14 - Ocean of Storms, and Frau Mauro Landing sites

I'm always on the photographic hunt for the Apollo landing sites. So during this pandemic I'll set up in the backyard and shoot them time and time again, trying to get better resolution. This is of the Frau Mauro/ Mare Cognitum area where Apollo 12 and 14 landed. A12 and A14 landing sites are not easy to find in a telescope unlike A15, 16, & 17 that have solid geography around them. The "Snowman" craters for A12, and "Triplet" & "Cone" craters for A14 - near where they respectively landed are *way* too small to be resolved in an Earth based telescope. Some of them are barely 300 feet across and many of us that shoot the moon are lucky to get just under a mile resolution. I included landmarks for the Rienhold, Lansberg, and Parry craters. Rienhold and Lansberg come off from the southwest of the big boy Copernicus (not shown). Lansberg is some 22 miles across and about 1.7 miles deep, while Parry is about 24 miles across but is likely older as the basin was filled in with lava. The mountains on the rim of Parry to the northwest are speculated to be nearly a mile high. Shot was taken July 12th with a CGE 11 using a QHY5III178M. Best 20% of 4000 frames were taken using FireCapture and stacked in Autostakkert 3, with processing in PS-CC.

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