Plato in Color
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This detailed color image centers on the beautiful crater Plato just beneath Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Showers). Up and right from Plato is the short Montes Recti range. In the upper left the two distinctive craters are Kepler and Copernicus. Copernicus is the bigger one.
Image details
| Telescope: | Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 | |
| Length: | 1635mm | |
| Aperture: | 235mm | |
| F-stop: | f/6.225 | |
| Sessions: | 1 | |
| Captured: | 2023-10-26 to 2023-10-26 | |
| Lights: | 2000 | |
| Exposure: | 0.01 | |
| Total exposure: | 20 s |
The Clavius crater region
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The Moon's Copernicus crater.
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Crater
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Eratosthenes
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Mare Crisium
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The Mare Imbrium region
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The Mare Nubium region
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Lunar Polar Craters
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The Sinus Iridum region
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Close up of the Tycho crater
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The Moon's Tycho crater.
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