Moon Mosaic

Captured on June 13, 2006 using K3CCDTools and a ToUcam 840 camera at prime focus of my C8 SGT XLT. This image is a mosaic of 2 images, each a stack of 100 frames from approximately 900 captured. Images stacked and processed in K3CCDTools, then merged, unsharp masked, cropped and saved for the web in Photoshop CS2.

Mare Crisium is visible on the right hand side of this image. The Sea of Crises is an oval mare with it's major axis running east-west. It covers 176,000 square kilometres, is approximately 570 kms diameter and is surrounded by a mountainous wall clearly visible in this image. The two largest craters in Mare Crisium are Picard (left) and Peirce (right). Picard is 23 kms in diameter with a sharp rim, while Peirce is 18.5 kms in diameter. Just to the right of Peirce is the 11km crater Swift. Between Picard and the nearest "coast" of Mare crisium is the crater Greaves which is 14kms in diameter.

Below and to the right of Mare Crisium is the 126km diameter crater, Cleomedes. Cleomedes A, B, E and J are visible inside Cleomedes, as is the central peak, but Rima Cleomedes is not visible in this image. Rima Cleomedes is 30kms long. Below Cleomedes are Tralles (43km diameter) and Debes, a 31 km crater associated with Debes A and B.

Following the terminator north from Cleomedes we find Burckhardt, a 57km crater with "ears" - Buckhardt E and F. The next large crater in this line is Geminus. Geminus is a complex crater 86kms in diameter. The central peak is visible in this image. Messala is the larg 124km diameter crater in the same line as Geminus and Burckhardt. The flooded crater adjacent Messala is the 61km Schumacher.