Tuesday 16 June 2020

Lunar Crater Posidonius and 'Felix Ridge' near crater Atlas.


Moon at first Quarter May 2020. 127mm Meade Apo Refractor with Barlow f=2250mm. QHY5-11 colour camera. This view has North roughly to the left with crater Posidonius in the foreground, craters Hercules and Atlas in the mid-ground and Endymion with terracing well displayed near the limb. The Jodrell Plank Team is looking forward to trying out the new mono- version of this camera on the Moon. Credit: Kurt Thrust
"The team is eagerly anticipating a clear night when, our latest aquisition - a QHY5-11 mono camera, can be used to image the Moon. It offers increased definition and even sharper views of our celestial neighbour. We were pleased with this coloured image which was compiled by stacking the 10 best video frames from only 100 frames captured.
Posidonius, is an impact crater located to the edge of Mare Serenitatis, it is aprroximately 95 kilometres in diameter and 2.3 kilometres deep. The crater has been flooded with lava and shows later superimposed cratering and a rills.
Endymion is a larger impact which lies near the northeast lunar limb. It sits to the east of Mare Frigoris and north of Lacus Temporis. Endymion is approximately 125 kilometres in diameter and 2.6 kilometres deep. The impact craters; Hercules and Atlas may be seen located between Endymion and Posidonius.
The 'bright white' ray structure to the east of crater Atlas does not appear to be named on our Moon Atlas . Our sponsors, Anita and George Roberts, have unofficially named it  'Felix Ridge' in recognition of their eldest grandson's 16th Birthday. Happy Birthday Felix from all the team at the Jodrell Plank Observatory"! - Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

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