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Lunar #86: Rimae Prinz

L86 main image L86 annotated

Prinz is a horseshoe crater that would be 48 km in diameter and lies not far from Aristarchus, an extremely bright crater in a wide dark mare environment. The object here are several rimae north of Prinz and east of Montes Harbinger.

Images:

  1. The area imaged on 2004-05-01, stacked from 500 video frames taken with a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector of D = 200 mm and f = 3500 mm and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam. Unsharp mask. The phase was +88%.
  2. Dto., annotated and with scale.