Mare Humorum Region

20:31 2/2/2004 UTC

This was one of my initial attempts of shooting moon using video mode of digital camera. Seeing was quite bad during this session, so almost 80% of frames had to be discarded due to turbulence. Crater Schickard is a beautiful sight as Moon approaches its full illumination. Few days before full Moon, the Sun begins to rise at its walls. It is a large crater, spanning over 200km across. Schickard show here completely shadowed at the terminator. Schiller is the elongated crater up from the center of the image. It is believed to be formed by merging craters in low angle meteor impact. The "double" crater below Schiller is named Hainzel, a formation composed from Hainzel A and Hainzel C impact craters.