Crater Deslandres and the Hell Group
First light for a ZWO ASI 178 MM camera which has much smaller photosites than my previous cameras - hoping this will prove useful for close in lunar, sunspot and planetary work.
The photosites are 2.4 micron in an array of 3096 x 2080.
This image was taken on a Celestron Nexstar 8SE with a TeleVue x 2 Barlow and Astronomik red 2c filter.
Image is centred on 0N, 30S.
Crater Hell lies at 9 o'clock (large, dark semicircle shadow with central peak) within Deslandres and is surrounded by a number of smaller craters scattered throughout Deslandres which are labelled with letters.
Hell Q is the bright crater with some rays and pale ejecta at 3 o'clock within Deslandres- at full Moon, the surrounding area becomes one of the brightest on the Moon and is known as "Cassini's bright spot".
Lunar 100 objects:
L46 - Regiomontanus central peak
Crater Deslandres and the Hell Group
First light for a ZWO ASI 178 MM camera which has much smaller photosites than my previous cameras - hoping this will prove useful for close in lunar, sunspot and planetary work.
The photosites are 2.4 micron in an array of 3096 x 2080.
This image was taken on a Celestron Nexstar 8SE with a TeleVue x 2 Barlow and Astronomik red 2c filter.
Image is centred on 0N, 30S.
Crater Hell lies at 9 o'clock (large, dark semicircle shadow with central peak) within Deslandres and is surrounded by a number of smaller craters scattered throughout Deslandres which are labelled with letters.
Hell Q is the bright crater with some rays and pale ejecta at 3 o'clock within Deslandres- at full Moon, the surrounding area becomes one of the brightest on the Moon and is known as "Cassini's bright spot".
Lunar 100 objects:
L46 - Regiomontanus central peak