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Practical astronomy
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Astronomy
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The Moon
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The physical Moon
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The Lunar 100
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Lunar #28: Hipparchus
Hipparchus is a large crater of 151 km diameter with deformed walls. It contains to the Northeast the crater Horrocks of 30 km diameter. The horseshoe-shaped crater south of the centre is Hipparchus X with 17 km diameter. From the northwest boundary extends the Rima Réaumur.
Image:
- The area on 2023-05-27, stacked from 700 video frames taken with a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector of D = 200 mm and f = 3500 mm and Canon EOS 600Dα camera. Wavelet sharpening. The phase was +52%.
- Dto., annotated and with scale.
