Mare Insularum and Copernicus

Description:

The Mare Insularem ("sea of islands") featuring the crater Copernicus (the whitish, large crater in the center with a ray structure). Copernicus is 62 miles in diameter. Note the two slightly smaller craters directly above Copernicus. These are Reinhold (31 mile diameter) and Lansberg (26 mile diameter).

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Mare Insularum and Copernicus

Date Taken:

April 4, 2011

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Equipment Used:

14.5" Ritchey-Chretien telescope, Canon D50 DSLR camera

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one 1/80-second image

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