Gassendi

Captured August 6, 2006 by negative projection with my Celestron C8, 2.5x Powermate, moon filter and ToUcam with K3ccdtools capture software. Stacked and wavelets applied with Registax, and cropped and saved for the web with Photoshop CS2. Image scale and resolution is about 400m per pixel.

Gassendi is the dominant crater in this image with Mare Humorum to its right. Gassendi is a prominent crater of 110kms diameter, with walls 1860m high. It has a complex central mountain system and numerous hills and rilles on its floor. Breaching the left hand side crater wall is Gassendi A which is 33kms in diameter and 3600m deep. Gassendi B (26km diameter) is just above and left from Gassendi A