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Date/Location August 16, 2024 Bryan. Texas
Camera and Settings ZWO ASI715MC
Telescope GSO 250mm f/12 classical Cassigrain
Mount Celestron CGEM II
Exposure Stack from several hundred video frames video
Processing Autostakkert, Registax 6, Photoshop CS6
Other Schickard is the largest crater in the image located at a very southern lunar latitude on the edge of the Moon as we see it. The crater is 132 miles in diameter and 0.93 miles deep. The overlapping craters just below Schickard are called Nasmyth and Phocyldes.
Schickard Crater
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