Copernicus crater

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Copernicus is for sure one of the most photographed craters on the moon, 93 Km of diameter has ‘only’ 800 million years old. The central peak is only 1.3Km and is one of the most studied create by the NASA.… Read the rest

Astronomy, Moon

Tycho crater

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Tycho is a small crater of 85Km in the south of the moon, The central mountain is taller than 2Km, some interesting details of the elevation can be found here

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Astronomy, Moon

Clavius crater

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Clavius is for sure one of the most photographed subjects on the moon, 230Km of diameter it is dedicated to Christopher Clavius a mathematician of XV century. It appears stretched due to his meridian position and it is one of … Read the rest

Astronomy, Moon

Moon panorama

January 21, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

An unusual good night, this panel was composed by 3 shoots each of 15K frames. Only the 20% of the frames was selected.

Many famous crater are visible, the are was between Mare cognitum , Mare vaporum and Mare Ibrium… Read the rest

Astronomy, Deep Sky

M42 – close up

January 9, 2022 Glauco Admin Uri

Started as a stunning night, but after a couple of hours, it began to cloud over. Anyway it was a good surprise to see the result of these shoots because the scope was unguided, the total drift can be honestly … Read the rest

Astronomy, Sun