Around Copernicus
Copernicus - 18 April 2005
C8 at f/28 - ToUCam Pro - 50 frames - wavelet filter - poor seeing
Copernicus - 05 March 2001
Illumination 0,795 - colongitude 40°
C8 at f/10 - Vesta Pro - 8 frames stacked in Registax (reprocessed Dec 2002)
Located southeast of Montes Carpatus (upper left) Copernicus is one of the most spectacular craters on the Moon. It is a young crater not more than one billion years old and shows an extensive system of rays. Eratosthenes is visible to the upper right. The buried crater of Stadius is faintly visible to the east-northeast
Kepler NEW
Illumination 79 % - colongitude 43° - day 10
2003 April 12 - C8 at f/20 - ToUCam Pro - 40 frames stacked in Registax - wavelet filter
Not a spectacular crater in itself, but dominating this otherwise rather desolate region of the Moon.