Aristarchus

This image was captured on December 13, 2005 - my very first video sequence with the ToUcam. 73 frames were stacked in registax from 1031 frames captured with K3CCDTools, 640x 480, 10 frames per second and autoexposure (approx 1/40 sec? I think). Image was unsharp masked in Photoshop and rotated to orient the image with north to the top. Resolution is about 1 km per pixel.

Featured in this image are Aristarchus (burned out - near centre), neighbouring Herodotus and Schroters Valley, Marius (bottom left) and the extensive field of lunar domes west of Marius. Also visible is the ridge running from Herodotus A south and to the west of Marius.

Aristarchus:

Bright crater 40kms in diameter and 3000m in elevation. Visible on the night side of the moon in earthshine it is so bright.

Herodotus:

Flooded crater 35kms in diameter.

Schroters Valley or Vallis Schroteri:

The largest sinuous valley on the moon. It is 160kms long and its maximum depth is about 1000m. It starts from a 6km diameter crater 25km north of Herodotus which is not clear in this image. The valley soon opens out to 10km wide in the "Cobra's head" before it curves westward.

Montes Agricola:

Above Aristarchus and Herodotus, right on the terminator, the mountain range of Monte Agricola is visible. This extended mountain range is 160kms in length.

Mons Herodotus:

Between the most northerly curve of Schroter's Valley and the Montes Agricola is Mons Herodotus, which appears in this images as a bright white spot. Mons Herodotus is 5kms in diameter.

Marius:

Marius is the relatively large (41km diameter) crater at the bottom left of the image. It is a flooded crater and surrounded by extensive fields of lunar domes.

Kepler:

The bright rays of ejecta from Kepler crater can be seen in the lower right corner of the image.

Prinz:

Above and to the right of Aristarchus is the remains of a flooded crater known as Prinz. It is 47kms in diameter and 1010m in elevation.

Montes Harbinger:

Stretching above and to the right of Prinz is the Montes Harbinger - a group of isolated mountains on the edge of Mare Imbrium covering and area of about 90 square kilometres.

Krieger:

Krieger is a 22km diameter flooded crater directly above Prinz in this image.