Aristillus & Archimedes 20/11/04 - Eric Walker

The crater Aristillus in the centre has three mountains of 900m height in its centre. Note the rays extending out from all around it. The large flat-floored, lava-filled crater to its upper right is Archimedes. I took this on Saturday 20 November 2004 at 1800h UT. Weather was freezing cold (-5°C) and there was a small amount of high level hazy cloud (this stabilised seeing however). Pictures taken afocally (using an eyepiece mount) through a 4.5" reflector using a 32mm Plossl with 2x Barlow eyepiece. Nikon Coolpix 5700 settings 0.5 seconds, f/4.2, ISO 200, fl=71.2mm. The images were processed using Adobe Photoshop CS. www.astrophotos.plus.com