Copernicus Crater A Closer View (Focal Extender)
Copernicus resides in the moon's northwest quadrant in the Oceanus Procellarum and is one of the most striking on the moon.
The crater is some 90km in diameter.
This is a second image of the crater during the session but this time I used a focal extender on my Celestron C11 SCT.
Again the terraced walls of the lower side of the crater, along with the craters central mountains, are being strongly illuminated by the rising sun. In contrast the upper side of the crater remains in inky darkness.
The crater is surrounded by an ejecta blanket and this is nicely highlighted in this image with textured detail.
The floor topology shows one quadrant (on the left) is comparatively smooth in contrast to the boulder strewn appearance of the remaining quadrants.
Imaged with a Celestron C11SCT, Focal Extender and a ZWO290MM camera/Baader Long pass filter.
Thanks for looking!
Copernicus Crater A Closer View (Focal Extender)
Copernicus resides in the moon's northwest quadrant in the Oceanus Procellarum and is one of the most striking on the moon.
The crater is some 90km in diameter.
This is a second image of the crater during the session but this time I used a focal extender on my Celestron C11 SCT.
Again the terraced walls of the lower side of the crater, along with the craters central mountains, are being strongly illuminated by the rising sun. In contrast the upper side of the crater remains in inky darkness.
The crater is surrounded by an ejecta blanket and this is nicely highlighted in this image with textured detail.
The floor topology shows one quadrant (on the left) is comparatively smooth in contrast to the boulder strewn appearance of the remaining quadrants.
Imaged with a Celestron C11SCT, Focal Extender and a ZWO290MM camera/Baader Long pass filter.
Thanks for looking!