Pythagoras & Co Nov 10th 2019

[wouterdhoye]

Hi,

Yesterday evening, just before clouds started to roll in i was able to shoot (among others) this image of Pythagoras. Conditions were far from ideal with rather bad seeing and some thin clouds passing. 

Nonetheless Pythogoras here, also thanks to good librations turned out pretty well. The crater shows it's delicate terraces and a well defined central peaks. The peaks also cast a nice shadow over the crater floor. The crater has a diameter around 130km and is about 5000m deep. The central peaks rise about 1500m above the crater floor. The crater walls rise up about 1000m above the surrounding terrain.

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Enjoy.

Wouter.

[WestCoastCannuck]

Stunning.

[CraigT82]

Very nice!  Some lovely detail on the crater floor. I notice on astrobin you say you used the orange filter, were you not tempted to use the red or IR in order to more aggresivley counter the seeing?

[wouterdhoye]

I did try with an IR filter too.. result was not better.. so I opted for the better s/n ration of the orange filter.

Wouter.