The two large craters on the terminator in this image are Albategnius above center, and below Hipparchus. In addition, many ghost craters are in the surrounding area, craters which are almost buried by lava flows in the distant past. To produce this sharp image, thousands of individual frames were taken, and sorted on the basis of sharpness. Only the top 200 frames were used for the combined final image.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  Vesta Cam Pro
Exposure:  1/100
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = Average, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  5 C
Processing Tools:  Photoshop, AIP, Registax

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