Craters of the center Educating people about lunar craters.
Optics: Celestron C8"-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 7x optical zoom
Total magnification: 700x
Filter: No
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Editing: Video stabilized in Sony Vegas 10
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Craters-Arzachel Thebit and Rupes Recta
In the video below, is observed Arzachel crater, an impressive crater from Imbrian Era, with well defined and deep walled terraces. It makes a nice trio with craters Alphonsus and Ptolemaeus, on north.
Optics: Celestron C8"-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 7x optical zoom
Total magnification: 700x
Filter: No
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Editing: Video stabilized in Sony Vegas 10
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Copernicus crater and Montes carpatus video through telescope
Craters-Copernicus is a fresh impact crater with bright rays, 95 km in diameter located on the near side Moon, visible from Earth. Crater central peaks of this region was one of the nine areas considered for possible landing in the Apollo Moon exploration program. Copernicus contains several prominent central peaks rising to about 800 m above the crater floor.
http://lupuvictor.blogspot.ro/search/label/Craters-Copernicus
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Deslandres (256 km) is a lunar crater affected and distorted. It is located southeast of Mare Nubium on the rugged southern highlands of the Moon.
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 11/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Sinus Aestuum is almost with no albedo on surface or basalt lava. It is marked by several small impacts, and some rilles.At the east border is an irregular area that divides the bay from Mare Vaporum at east. To the north are Montes Apenninus and the crater Eratosthenes. Along the west side is the flooded crater Stadius (69 km),and Mare Insularum at southwest.
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 11/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Eratosthenes (58 km), is a lunar crater 3.6 kilometers deep, which is at the limit of Mare Imbrium and Sinus Aestuum. This crater forms the western mountains of Montes Apenninus.
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 11/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Monday, June 25, 2012
Deslandres crater has a heart-shape lying on the right,as it is sleeping; as shown in the last video, the "heart" occupies the entire screen
Video-Deslandres Pitatus and Lexell lunar craters
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 11/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Monday, February 27, 2012
Eratosthenes crater.
This crater forms the western mountains of Montes Apenninus.Crater has well-defined circular rim, terraced inner walls, mountain peaks in the center , an irregular floor and an exterior wave caused by the impact. It does not have a ray system, but it is touched by the rays of Copernicus crater to the southwest.
Read more: http://lupuvictor.blogspot.com/2011/07/eratosthenes-crater-and-sinus-aestuum.html
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 13/04/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Walther Purbach and Regiomontanus .
Purbach (118 km), is a large lunar crater located in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon.It is attached to the southern edge with the distorted Regiomontanus crater. To the northwest is Thebit (57 km), and north-east lies La Caille (68 km).
Read more: http://lupuvictor.blogspot.com/2011/05/walther-purbach-and-regiomontanus.html
Video by : Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-N telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: C5
Device: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 17/01/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Ptolemaeus (153 km.). Ptolemaeus crater features are highlighted when the sun is at low angles during the first quarter and last. When is Full Moon, crater contour become more difficult to discern.
Alphonsus (108 km) is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the immediate post-Nectarian era. It is located on the mountainous eastern end of Mare Nubium, and overlaps slightly with Ptolemaeus crater to the north. The exterior walls are slightly distorted and have a shape somewhat hexagonal.
Ptolemaeus Alphonsus and Alpetragius craters
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian reflector telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony HDR CX105
Date: 15/02/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Albategnius and Hipparchus and the surrounding area .
Albategnius and Hipparchus (136 and 150 km) are two craters located on the center of the Moon.Albategnius is deeper and in hexagonal shape, and Hipparchus is flooded with lava, and its margins are very low in some areas .
Read more: http://lupuvictor.blogspot.com/2011/05/albategnius-and-hipparchus-and.html
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-N telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device:HDR Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 10.02.2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 Registax
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Triesnecker Moon crater astronomy video
Video by:Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron Newtonian 8 "reflector, super plossl 20mm.2x Barlow
Camera: Sony HDR CX105 at 10x optical zoom
Date: 10/02/2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-N telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device:HDR Sony CX105
Filter: No
Date: 10.02.2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 Registax
Albategnius and Hipparchus Craters video HD