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Schickard and plateau crater of Wargentin, Guillermo Gonzalez

Schickard and plateau crater of Wargentin

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Schickard and plateau crater of Wargentin, Guillermo Gonzalez

Schickard and plateau crater of Wargentin

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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A sort of Lunar "Laurel and Hardy" comprising:

- Schickard, a very large, old crater, 206 km in diameter, with  relatively smooth and level floor with high walls (although not very visible with light in this image) making a one of the largest wall-surrounded plains  in the Moon.
-  Wargentin is one of the rare plateau craters, filled to the  rim with dark lava. The crater’s floor lies about 400 m above  the surrounding terrain and is crossed by a mare wrinkle ridge. 

Because of the location of Wargentin, is not always easy to capture it with the adequate light so I was very happy to be able to "be there" (this would be an adaptation of the famous photograhing adage "F8 and be there", although in this case it would be F20...) 

Very visible in the image there is also Nasmyth and partyally Phocylides. 

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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Schickard and plateau crater of Wargentin, Guillermo Gonzalez