Showing posts with label Aristarchus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aristarchus. Show all posts
Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Aristarchus 9th Dec.
Not so cold tonight, just as well since I have one.
4 image mosaic.
I love all the rilles around the top this crater, and the dome in the lower left.
Below is a tonal adjusted & over sharpened (to bring out the rilles) version.
Below is the same sort of view from apollo 15 orbit.
4 image mosaic.
I love all the rilles around the top this crater, and the dome in the lower left.
Below is a tonal adjusted & over sharpened (to bring out the rilles) version.
Below is the same sort of view from apollo 15 orbit.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Aristarchus 7th Aug.
7 image mosaic.Below; contrast enhanced version of the crater area. Below that, the crater a couple of days earlier.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Aristarchus & Vallis Schröteri 3rd Nov 2006
Six image mosaic. Compare to this.
Vallis Schröteri is a sinuous valley on the surface of the Moon. It is located on a rise of continental ground, sometimes called the Aristarchus plateau, that is surrounded by the Oceanus Procellarum to the south and west and the Mare Imbrium to the northwest. At the southern edge of this rise are the craters Aristarchus and Herodotus.
This is the largest such sinuous valley formation on the Moon. It begins at a 6 km diameter crater located 25 km to the north of Herodotus. (The start of the valley has been termed the "Cobra's Head" by some observers, due to its resemblance to a snake.) From the crater it follows a meandering path, first to the north, then setting a course toward the northeast, before finally bending back to the south until it reaches a 1 km high precipice at the edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. The valley has a maximum width of about 10 km, then gradually narrows to less than a kilometer near its terminus.
The origins of this valley are believed to be volcanic. The interior floor has been resurfaced and is very level. However there is a slender rille located on the floor. This rille is not visible to observers on the Earth.
The selenographic coordinates of this valley are 26.2° N 50.8° W, and it has a maximum diameter of 168 km. It is named for Johannes H. Schröter.
Wikipedia
Vallis Schröteri is a sinuous valley on the surface of the Moon. It is located on a rise of continental ground, sometimes called the Aristarchus plateau, that is surrounded by the Oceanus Procellarum to the south and west and the Mare Imbrium to the northwest. At the southern edge of this rise are the craters Aristarchus and Herodotus.This is the largest such sinuous valley formation on the Moon. It begins at a 6 km diameter crater located 25 km to the north of Herodotus. (The start of the valley has been termed the "Cobra's Head" by some observers, due to its resemblance to a snake.) From the crater it follows a meandering path, first to the north, then setting a course toward the northeast, before finally bending back to the south until it reaches a 1 km high precipice at the edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. The valley has a maximum width of about 10 km, then gradually narrows to less than a kilometer near its terminus.
The origins of this valley are believed to be volcanic. The interior floor has been resurfaced and is very level. However there is a slender rille located on the floor. This rille is not visible to observers on the Earth.
The selenographic coordinates of this valley are 26.2° N 50.8° W, and it has a maximum diameter of 168 km. It is named for Johannes H. Schröter.
Wikipedia
Friday, November 03, 2006
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Moon pics from 11th Jan
Plato
Moretus
Kepler
Helicon & Le Verrier
Hadley Rille
Gruithuisen
Gassendi
Copernicus
Calvius and Tycho
Clavius
Aristarchus
Aristarchus
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Aristarchus
Tricky one to process this. Very bright crater centre. 1.8xBarlow.
Link to Apollo 15 mission picture:-
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