Copernicus - Moon 11.5 days 81.4%  
Moon

Copernicus crater and surounding areas		  
 
Date: 2011-01-15
Time: 22:25h

Lunation: 10.57d
Phase: 51.0º
Distance: 380464kms
Apparent diameter: 31.41º
Colongitude: 45.5º
Illumination: 81.4%
Rise: 13:31h
Transit: 21:42h
Set: 04:55h


COPERNICUS
Type: Crater
Geological period: Copernician (From -1.1 billions years to present days)
 
Size:
Dimension: 95.0x95.0Km / 56.0x56.0Mi
Height: 3760.0' / 11400.0ft
Height/Wide ratio: 0.0404
 
Description:
Young and isolated formation with hexagonal form. Bright rays all around.
Very steep slopes dominant Mare Insularum of 900 m tormented and supporting Fauth to the South and Gay-Lussac to the North.
Floor flatter to the North that to the South. Three central mountains (1200 m). Hills and ruins in the arena.
 
Observation:
Interest : Exceptional formation
Observation period: 2 days after First Quarter or 1 day after Last Quarter
Minimal Instrument: 50 mm refractor
 
Position:
Longitude: 20.0° West
Latitude: 9.7° North
Quadrant: North-West
Area: Copernic crater region
 
Atlas:
Rukl map: 31 Copernicus
Viscardy page:  294
Hatfield map: 5 e4
Westfall Atlas: 018C 024C 029C 191C 201C
Charles Wood article: ST02/01 MM15 MM47 L100/005
Lunar Orbiter:  IV-114-M  IV-121-H1  IV-121-H2  IV-126-H2  IV-126-M
 
IV-133-M  IV-138-M
 
Name Origine:
Detailed Name: Nicolas Copernic
16 th century polish Astronomer born in Poland
Born at: Torun in 1473
Dead at: Frauenburg in 1543
Important Facts: Canon of Frauenburg in 1479. Doctor of the university of Ferrare in 1503. Author of the 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ' in 1543 presenting the heliocentric system in which the Earth and planets turn around the Sun.

Name Author: Riccioli (1651)
Name by Langrenus: Philippi IV
Name by Hevelius: Insula Sicilia + Mons Aetna
Name by Riccioli: Copernicus
 
  
 
Technical details:  
Location:  
 Valdemorillo - Spain
Date:  
 15/01/2011 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Conditions:  
 Normal
Temperature:  
 6ºC
Humidity:  
 normal
 
Telescope:  
 GSO Reflector 200mm f/4
Reducer/corrector:  
 No reducer
Filter:  
 No filter
Mount:  
 Orion Atlas EQG
Camera:  
 QHY5V
Exposure:  
 209 frames AVI video
Guiding tube:  
 No guiding
Guiding camera:  
 No guide camera
Guiding software:  
 No guide software
 
Procesing:  
 RegiStax 5 and PixInsight  
Notes:  
  
     

 
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