Plato

19:28 8/1/2006 UTC

I've always wanted to image this very beautiful crater and try to catch the little craterlets in the Plato floor. This time the seeing was good or even excellent. I managed to get three those in my image! Visually those little craters were popping into view like pop corns using 12" dobson and 4mm Radian of my buddy.

Camera: Phillips ToUCam Pro II webcam | Telescope: Orion Optics Europa 200mm f6 Newtonian reflector, Televue Powermate 5x | Mount: Orion Skyview Pro, Boxdoerfer PowerFlex MTS-3SLP drive controller | Filters: Baader IR pass filter | Guiding: - | Exposure: 350(600) x 1/10s f30 | Software: Qastrocam, Registax, GIMP | Location: 60°31'N 26°52'E (Koivula/Kotka,FI) | Seeing: II |