Date: April 10th, 2008
Object: Lunar Feature - Mare Crisium
Description: A zoomed in view of one of my favorite lunar features, Mare Crisium, also known as the Sea of Crisis. This region is home to a gravitational anomaly thought to be caused by recent collisions with other solid objects.
Photo Credit: Bobby Arn
Location: Requarth's Observatory, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Telescope: 1000mm f/11.1 Refractor Telescope piggybacked on a Parallax Instruments 20" Ritchey-Chretien
Camera: Meade Planetary Imager
Best 57 out of 449 frames
Processed: Registax, Microsoft Digital Image Suite
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