Double Double

Hesiodus and Pitatus

Hesiodus and Pitatus
Sketch and Details by Serge Vieillard, translation by Frank McCabe

Roughly translated from French to English Serge wrote:

It was the weekend of the first of May 2007, and I was using a 25 cm. telescope on an equatorial platform at 500x. The moon was well into the gibbous phase. Despite the persistent turbulence, I noticed with pleasure the small crater Hesiodus near the edge of much larger crater Pitatus and adjacent to Hesiodus to the southwest the perfectly concentric interlocking of two craters one in the other called Hesiodus A.

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