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Environs of Hercules Crater
Hercules and nearby Atlas are both craters with multiple terraced edges. Strongmen of ancient mythology, the Titan Atlas was condemned to hold up the sky for eternity whilst Hercules was the Roman equivalent of the Greek hero Heracles.
Endymion is a walled plain close to the Moon’s northeast limb which appears oval due to foreshortening. In Greek mythology Endymion was a lover of Seline. Pliny the Elder suggested that he was the first human to observe the movements of the moon.
Lacus Temporis, or Lake of Time, is an area of basaltic lava.
Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin, is a lunar impact crater with a central peak.
Cepheus is a relatively young crater named after a king of Aetheopia and father of Andromeda.
Bürg crater has a large central mountain and is named after Johann Tobias Bürg, a Viennese astronomer who published tables on the orbit of the moon in 1799.
Imaged with Sharpcap on 13-09-2022 from the UK using a SW200P Newtonian scope and Altair H183Mpro camera with a red filter. The best 25% of 2000x 3ms subs were stacked in AutoStakert, sharpened in Registax and post processed in Affinity Photo with Topaz DeNoiseAI plug-in.
Environs of Hercules Crater
Hercules and nearby Atlas are both craters with multiple terraced edges. Strongmen of ancient mythology, the Titan Atlas was condemned to hold up the sky for eternity whilst Hercules was the Roman equivalent of the Greek hero Heracles.
Endymion is a walled plain close to the Moon’s northeast limb which appears oval due to foreshortening. In Greek mythology Endymion was a lover of Seline. Pliny the Elder suggested that he was the first human to observe the movements of the moon.
Lacus Temporis, or Lake of Time, is an area of basaltic lava.
Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin, is a lunar impact crater with a central peak.
Cepheus is a relatively young crater named after a king of Aetheopia and father of Andromeda.
Bürg crater has a large central mountain and is named after Johann Tobias Bürg, a Viennese astronomer who published tables on the orbit of the moon in 1799.
Imaged with Sharpcap on 13-09-2022 from the UK using a SW200P Newtonian scope and Altair H183Mpro camera with a red filter. The best 25% of 2000x 3ms subs were stacked in AutoStakert, sharpened in Registax and post processed in Affinity Photo with Topaz DeNoiseAI plug-in.