Observatoire
de
l'Institut d'Optique
Graduate School
Antenne de Saint
Etienne
The Moon
Copernic
Diameter = 93 km,
Depth = 3760 m, Central peaks/Height = 1200 m
The
standard from HST
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Powermate Televue 2.5 x
0.12''/pixel
or 232 m/pixel
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
Stack of
100 frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
The comparison with
the image from HST is not ridiculous !
The smaller craters seen in this image have diameters smaller than 800 m !
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50 frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50 frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Top right : Stadius
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
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50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Right : Stadius
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Alphonsus
(top)
Arzachel (bottom)
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
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50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Montes Apenninus
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
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frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Apollo 15 landed on
this area
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Archimedes
(left)
Diameter = 83 km, Depth = 2150 m
Aristillus
(top
right)
Diameter = 55 km,
Depth = 3650 m, Central peaks/Height =
900 m
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
30
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Aristillus
(left)
Cassini (top right)
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
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IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Right : Montes
Caucasus
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
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50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Top left : Montes
Piton (height = 2250 m)
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Aristoteles
(top)
Diameter = 87 km
Eudoxus
(bottom)
Diameter = 67 km
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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North pole
Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
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IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Clavius
Diameter = 225 km
Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Deslandres
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
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50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Erathostenes
Diameter = 58 km, Depth = 3570 m
Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Bottom left : Stadius
Right : Montes Apenninus
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Right : Montes
Apenninus
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Bottom : Stadius
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Meton
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
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0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
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IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Plato
Diameter = 100 km
Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
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50
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IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Bottom right : Vallis
Alpes
The
rima on the floor of Vallis Alpes is (hardly) visible
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Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
How much craterlets
do you see inside Plato ?
Just south of Plato (from
left to right) :
Montes Recti
Montes Teneriffe
Pico (heigh = 2400 m)
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Ptolemaeus
(top)
Diameter = 153 km, Depth = 2400 m
Alphonsus (bottom)
Diameter = 118 km, Depth = 2730 m
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Ranger 9 landed on
Alphonsus
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Rupes Recta
Length = 96 km, Height = 240 à 300 m,
Slop ~ 7°
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Stöfler
Diameter = 137 km, Depth = 2760 m
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
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50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Triesnecker
(left) and
Rimae Triesnecker
Hyginus (center) and Rima Hyginus
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Tycho
Diameter = 85 km,
Depth = 4850 m, Central peaks/Height = 1600 m
Moon : 10-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
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IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
Surveyor 7 landed on the north side of Tycho
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Werner
Diameter = 70 km,
Depth = 4220 m
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Vallis Alpes
Length = 130 km
Moon : 8-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
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Moon : 9-day-old
Poor seeing
C14 + AP 1200 GTO
IR block Baader
Philips ToUcam Pro webcam
0.3''/pixel or 580 m/pixel
Stack of
50
frames processed with
IRIS
Thierry Lépine
Ecole Supérieure d’Optique
Saint Etienne – France
The rima on the
floor of Vallis Alpes is (hardly) visible
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