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Lunar #69: Pytheas craterlets

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In Wood's list #69 is named "Copernicus secondary craters", but as significance is stated "rays and craterlets near Pytheas" (2004a, 2012a). His notes (Hardwick 2013a) speak only of craterlets of 3 km diameter around Pytheas and in the area between Pytheas and Montes Carpatus, which is the mountain range north of Copernicus.

Images:

  1. The area on 2023-04-29, 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 +69%.
  2. Dto., annotated and with scale.