ALTAIR nickaltair Posted July 13, 2022 ALTAIR Share Posted July 13, 2022 Plato is one of my favourite craters, and when the seeing is steady, there's so much to see. It's about 100km in diameter, and the rim is higher than it looks reaching about 1500 metres above the crater floor, which is quite smooth, once a sea of molten lava, now basalt. Most agree that the impact occurred about 3.75 billion years ago, which happens to be just as microbial life appeared on earth. I caught a prominent rille on the upper right, and I like this part of the lunar day, because of the way the scenery just falls off into space. Every now and then I process stuff to free up my hard drive. Holidays next week, so hope to catch up more. Imaged with my Altair GPCAM 385C 1250 frames stacked in AS2, Wavelets in Registax and monitor calibration in Photoshop. Altair 10" Cassegrain Altair Flat Field APO Barlow CEM120 Mount Altair Pier and observatory Wishing you all well from Norfolk, UK! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightspore Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Nice shadow detail inside the crater. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALTAIR nickaltair Posted July 26, 2022 Author ALTAIR Share Posted July 26, 2022 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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