Craters of the Moon Crater Heraclitus Pictures by telescope.

138 video frames, in Registax.

229 video frames, in Registax.

25 video frames, in Registax.

The south of the Moon is full of countless craters, where large basins of lava are missing. Craters Heraclitus and Licetus (90/75 km) are some of seen in these images processed in Registax.
Heraclitus is a crater divided into two, over the edges of which are being overlapped two craters: to the south, Heraclitus D (52 km) and to the north, Licetus, Heraclitus being located between the two.

In the picture below you can identify each crater including satellite craters in this area. We enumerate here craters as Lilius (61 km), Cuvier (75 km), Zach (71 km) and Jacobi (68 km).

In this area, no manned missions were carried out due to highlands, but only over large areas such as basaltic lava basins that are much smoother, and which can tell us much more about the composition of the Moon.

Heraclitus crater is named after Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 -. C. 475 BC). He was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor.

229 video frames, in Registax.

Moon Age: 9.05 days
Phase: 70.5% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 399.221 km

Optics (telescope or lenses): Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, eyepiece 20mm Plossl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 10/03/2014
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax,  FastStone Image Viewer

Posted in: Craters-Heraclitus and Licetus,Craters-Lilius,Eponyms of Moon craters