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(1) Rima Hyginus (5-29-01) (2) Langrenus (3-11-01) (3) Gassendi (5-4-01) (4) Schiller (5-4-01) |
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Rima Hyginus imaged 5-29-01.
Imaged with AP 155, Nikon CP950, UO 18mm Ortho and Orion 2X
Barlow. Single image compressed from 714k to 77k for faster download. Hyginus is
220 km in length and was named after Caius Julius Hyginus (1st Century A.D.) who
described the constellations and their mythology.
Langrenus imaged 3-11-01.
Imaged with AP 155, Nikon CP 950, UO 12.5mm Ortho and Orion 2X
Barlow. Single image compressed from 384k to 48k for faster download. Langrenus
(132 km in diameter) was named after Belgian mathematician Michel Florent van
Langren (1600-1675).
Gassendi imaged 5-04-01.
Imaged with AP 155, Nikon CP950, UO 18mm Ortho, Orion 2X
Barlow. Single image compressed from 438k to 49k for faster download. Gassendi
(110 km in diameter) is named after Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), a French
theologian and astronomer. He was the first to observe a transit of Mercury
across the Sun in 1631, forecast by Kepler.
Schiller imaged 5-4-01.
Imaged with AP 155, Nikon CP950, UO 12.5mm Ortho, Orion 2X
Barlow. Single image compressed from 662k to 64k for faster download. Schiller
is an elongated crater measuring 179 km x 71 km. It is theorized to have been
produced by a glancing impact on the surface of the Moon. Named after the German
monk Julius Schiller who was the author of a Christian atlas of the sky
published in 1627.
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