Hevelius Crater

Moon crater ” Hevelius ” … a marginal phenomenon !

Hello,

even though we had already almost full moon, I wanted to take advantage of the clear weather. 21.00 clock then I moved my MON 2 with the TMB manually on our cosmic neighbor.
Since stabbed veeery on the edge out a very pretty crater group. The air was relatively quiet and the 6mm Ortho at about 133x I was excited about the harsh contrasts around the impact site and the shadow boundary. I quickly got my sketch pad and pencils to capture the scene.

That it was the crater Hevelius ( about 100km in diameter) , I had to investigate . I found something in my Moon Atlas from the 60s and in the virtual Moon Atlas . Cavalerius is the second largest crater in the group with about 60km and the crater Lohrmann with about 30km rounded out the picture.

I hope that you like it!

CS Uwe

Object name: “Hevelius” Crater
Object: Lunar Crater
Location: Germany near Tauberbischofsheim
Date: 15.12.2013
Telescope : TMB 115/805
Magnification: 133x
Eyepiece: Baader Genuine Ortho 6mm