Large Crater on Lunar Surface

[Dan Watts]

Hey everyone,

I wondered if somebody could shed some light on some pictures I took a couple of weeks back through the eyepiece with my Iphone held up to it (Tricky at this mag, especially with the FOV).

PICS AS BELOW

I noticed when looking at the moon through a low power EP that a small chunk of the moon (about 11 'o' clock if you look at the moon picture) was missing.

I changed over to my Baader Zoom with the x2.25 Barlow attachment and got right onto the moon to have a closer look and low and behold a massive crater was apparent with something that looks like it's sitting in the middle of it.

I'll be honest, i'm no professional at this but after viewing the moon and many of it's transits, I have never seen this before - It's almost like it's a supermassive crater - With the fact I could make out there was chunk missing from the moon from a low power, I can't begin to imagine how big this thing is!

Any shedding of light on this would be greatly appreciated

Dan

[Starlight 1]

Yes I rember seeing this 2 week ago and I was chatting to one of the Moderator about it I think is was John ,I have to look up the old post for you.

[Starlight 1]

http://stargazerslounge.com/discussions-scopes-whole-setups/183489-sw120-refractors.html Here it is see post from John.

[Dan Watts]

Thank you for your reply that would be great...I thought I would be the only person to have queried this

Speak soon...

Dan

[Starlight 1]

Click on link, http://stargazerslounge.com/discussions-scopes-whole-setups/183489-sw120-refractors.html

[Dan Watts]

Got it, I didn't realise you had sent 2 messages so I missed that originally.

That has got to be it then by the sound of it...Brilliant!

Dan

[sanmatt]

Zoom.it ? Image 373n would this help you to work out which one it is? It's reallygreat, you can zoom in and stuff is labelled. It's helping me to annotate my images.

[Dan Watts]

Wow! this is great, I have never seen this before...In my favourites and will def be using this for future ref Thank u.

Dan.

[symesie04]

The crater at the 11 o'clock position in the first pic is Tycho. Havent read the sw120 thread but assume thats what is alluded to in that as well. Tycho is quite young, estimated at just over 100 million years old. Its 86 km wide and just under 5 km deep.

[sanmatt]

Wow! this is great, I have never seen this before...In my favourites and will def be using this for future ref Thank u.

Dan.

You're welcome. I love it

[jgs001]

It's worth having a look at VMA (Virtual Moon Atlas)...

Virtual Moon Atlas | Free Science & Engineering software downloads at SourceForge.net

It's free and very good

[Dan Watts]

Just downloading, thanks for the heads up

[Dan Watts]

The crater at the 11 o'clock position in the first pic is Tycho. Havent read the sw120 thread but assume thats what is alluded to in that as well. Tycho is quite young, estimated at just over 100 million years old. Its 86 km wide and just under 5 km deep.

Just been on Wikipedia and this def looks like one...I can disperse my theory of the Government mining on the moon then haha.

[symesie04]

Haha not yet but dont count that out in the future

[Dan Watts]

Mmm, I do have my suspicions...but that's another thread

[Naemeth]

The 2nd image actually looks like another world in a way. Very nice images though!

[Dan Watts]

The 2nd image actually looks like another world in a way. Very nice images though!

Hehe...I thought that as well when I was taking the photos! Like something out of a sci-fi film

I was actually impressed at the quality of it, I took them with my measly Iphone 3GS - Only has a couple of MP on the camera, no HD. I find it focuses better than my Lumix for some reason.

Thanks for the comment in any case

Dan.