Aristarchus

This image was captured on December 13, 2005. My second ever attempt using a ToUcam. Just 13 frames stacked in Registax out of 453 frames captured using K3CCDTools, autoexposure, 640x480, 10 frames per second. Camera was at prime focus of my C8. Only processing in Photoshop was to unsharp mask to image. Resolution is approximately 1km per pixel.

This image shows just a hint of a central peak in Aristarchus (top centre). Also featured are, of course, are Schroters Valley, Herodotus, Montes Harbinger (top right) and Kepler (bottom centre).

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:

Kepler is visible at the bottom centre of this image. It is 32kms in diameter and 2510m in elevation and surrounded by an extensive ray system.

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.