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Lunar #38: Sabine and Ritter

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Sabine and Ritter are two similar craters neighbouring each other and lying just inside Mare Tranquillitatis. Their diameters are 30 km and 31 km, resp.

Image:

  1. The area on 2023-02-28, 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 +64%.
  2. Dto., annotated and with scale.