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[Physicsman]

I was doing a bit of re-processing of some "old" images from February and thought this take of the Eratosthenes area on the terminator might be of interest.

 

 

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Eratosthenes is a beautiful crater but rapidly becomes anonymous as the sun rises over it.

Edited by Physicsman, 26 March 2025 - 09:36 PM.

[Jim Waters]

Nice image with good details Physicsman.  Thanks for posting the picture.

[scottinash]

Lovely image!   The diversity of features in this frame, especially the Large 1600 x 1533 version in your gallery, is fantastic!

 

As I was zooming in and around your image, I saw a unique oval depression which appears to be maybe a collapsed lava tube or possibly a low angle impact crater?

 

 

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Edited by scottinash, 27 March 2025 - 07:09 PM.

[scottinash]

I dropped a pin of the aforementioned oval depression into Quickmap.  

[Physicsman]

I dropped a pin of the aforementioned oval depression into Quickmap.  

You really do have "eagle eyes". But very pleased to see that such a feature - some kind of oval pit...collapsed lava tube...is resolvable on the image.

 

The QuickMap data gives dimensions of around 4km x 1km, so around 0.5" which is pretty good.

Edited by Physicsman, 27 March 2025 - 07:29 PM.

[Borodog]

I missed this image, Jeff. Very nice. My favorite dome, Yangel 1, is in the upper right.

[Physicsman]

I missed this image, Jeff. Very nice. My favorite dome, Yangel 1, is in the upper right.

Cheers, Mike.

 

I wasn't sure where Yangel was, so went onto Quickmap. Yangel, Rima Yangel and, yes, that is one beast of a dome!

 

Looked in better resolution on the laptop and very clearly visible on the CN image above.

[Physicsman]

Hope I got this right - certainly "domy" to me on Quickmap!

 

[scottinash]

Great capture of Yangel 1.  If you look left and up, you will see the "rille of Pi"......not official, my name for it.

 

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[Physicsman]

Yes, I like the Pi rille  along with that snakey rille adjacent to it.

 

Have we discussed Yangel previously? Glad that Mike pointed it out.

[Borodog]

https://www.cloudyni...ors/?p=13402977

[Physicsman]

https://www.cloudyni...ors/?p=13402977

Mike, thanks for the link.

 

I'd forgotten about "Ina", which is number 99 or 100 in Wood's Lunar 100.

 

I really ought to spend more time examining the images I take (I send them to Scott to do this....lol!) rather than just taking and processing them.