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Rimae Sirsalis, Sirsalis and Hansteen Crater in natural colours, Guillermo Gonzalez

Rimae Sirsalis, Sirsalis and Hansteen Crater in natural colours

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Rimae Sirsalis, Sirsalis and Hansteen Crater in natural colours, Guillermo Gonzalez

Rimae Sirsalis, Sirsalis and Hansteen Crater in natural colours

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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A long-sought target of my lunar activity, Rimae Sirsalis was "in place" so I took the chance with good seeing. Besides, not many images on this target in Astrobin despite the interesting Lunar feature it is (an avereage 3-km wide rille run north-south  on the eastern side of Sirsalis Carter. Rima Sirsalis is a fracture zone, possibly  caused by the Orientale impact, and interestingly, it  cut across various lunar terrains, including highlands and maria. To the south, Rima Sirsalis  merges directly into the rille system Rimae Darwin )

Sirsalis is a crater 42 km across, with a central peak (hidden in the shadow in the image), it overlaps  the crater Sirsalis A, 49 km across. Up in the image is the Hansteen Crater, a very interesting (a nice way of saying very fractured) although light was not perfect for this crater, overall in comparison with Billy crater (cut in the image).  

The AP details are: a mosaic of 5 images, up-right, up-left, center, Bottom-right, bottom-left, cutting out the borders to focus on the central part of the mosaic. Each image is the best 1000-1500 stacked images out of around 50000 images captured at around 150 fps.

CS, Guillermo

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Rimae Sirsalis, Sirsalis and Hansteen Crater in natural colours, Guillermo Gonzalez

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