Aristarchus
and Schiller with the QHY5 (ALCCD5)
All images
on this page were taken with a QHY5 (ALCCD5) camera using my 150mm
Newtonian telescope.
A 2x barlow lens and a right angle prism were used to increase
the effective focal length. The resulting focal length was about
2000mm.
For each image, about 200pictures were processed using the Registax
software.
The Aristarchus region is one of my favourite places on the
moon. Aristarchus is the brightes crater on the moon. It is
located in
a corner of the diamond-shaped elevated area named after the
crater. Next to Aristarchus the sinuous Schröter Rille
is meandering across
the plateau.
In the lower right of this image you will find the very elongated
crater Schiller. It is not clear how it fomed, it could have
been caused by a very
oblique impact, or maybe by a binary asteroid hitting the lunar
surface.
All images © Philipp
Salzgeber
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