Petavius Crater 7-3-22

[morimarty]

Petavius crater captured monday evening 7-3-22 in very blustery conditions. Wiki describes this stunning crater as having a 170 miles diameter and a double rampart terrace rising to 11000ft.  The crater floor is convex rather like a crown bowling green where the central mountains rise up to 1.7kilometers above the surface. The crater also as a magnificent rille system with the prominant rimae petavius measuring 48miles x 1mile. This crater looked stunning on my laptop while capturing. So I would think this is a spectacular target for the visual observers.

C11 1.5x barlow asi 290mm baader red filter. As3 R6 aa5 cs6

[neil phillips]

3 hours ago, morimarty said:

Petavius crater captured monday evening 7-3-22 in very blustery conditions. Wiki describes this stunning crater as having a 170 miles diameter and a double rampart terrace rising to 11000ft.  The crater floor is convex rather like a crown bowling green where the central mountains rise up to 1.7kilometers above the surface. The crater also as a magnificent rille system with the prominant rimae petavius measuring 48miles x 1mile. This crater looked stunning on my laptop while capturing. So I would think this is a spectacular target for the visual observers.

C11 1.5x barlow asi 290mm baader red filter. As3 R6 aa5 cs6

A fascinating crater. Nice smooth Hi res rendition Martyn

[MalcolmM]

8 hours ago, morimarty said:

So I would think this is a spectacular target for the visual observers

Very very good image and yes, even in my little 60mm scope Petavius and it's rille made for fascinating viewing.

Malcolm

[WestCoastCannuck]

Excellent image of a favourite of mine!  Tons of great detail.

 

Clear skies!

 

Mike