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Hercules and Atlas, Waning Gibbous 4/9, psychwolf

Hercules and Atlas, Waning Gibbous 4/9

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Hercules and Atlas, Waning Gibbous 4/9, psychwolf

Hercules and Atlas, Waning Gibbous 4/9

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Just sharing some views along the terminator line early 4/9, including a close up of the Hercules and Atlas craters, which are 30km apart. Atlas is 2km deep, and about 3.2 billion years old. Hercules G is a smaller crater inside the floor of the Hercules, which is between 1.1 and 3.2 billion years old. If you look closely you can also see Atlas E, which is a 58km ghost crater, or a crater that was there before Atlas even. After collimating my scope I spent a little time with Luna despite some fog and wispy overhead clouds in places. Images are with a ZWO ASI462MC camera with Pro Planet IR block, Takahashi Mewlon 210 telescope, with and without barlow in poor seeing conditions, no ADC. Best 10% stack, then into denoise routines after some light stretching.

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