Clavius and Moretus

Captured on August 6, 2006 by negative projection with my Celestron C8, 2.5x Powermate, moon filter and ToUcam 840 Pro. K3ccdtools capture software, stacked in Registax, photomerge, unsharp masked, cropped and saved for the web in Photoshop CS2. Resolution is about 400m per pixel.

Clavius is the very large crater dominating the left of this image. About 225kms in diameter Clavius contains several smaller craters including Rutherford, a 48 x 54 km crater in the centre of the image. From Rutherford, and arc of craters decreasing in size extends to the top left corner of the image. hese are Clavius D, C, N, J and JA. The 2 craters on the top edge of Clavius are from Left to right, Calvius L and Clavius K. The crater on the bottom edge of Clavius is Porter, a 52 km diameter crater.

On the right hand side of the image the large crater with the central peak is Moretus, 114kms in diameter. Behind it, lies Short which is 71kms in diameter, and in front of it is Cysatus, a 49km diameter crater. Left of Moretus and Cysatus is Gruemberger which is 94kms in diameter with smaller child crater Gruemberger A inside.

The crater crossing the top of the image above Clavius is Blancanus which is a complex crater of 105kms diameter.