Crater Gassendi

Crater Gassendi
Crater Gassendi

Object Name: Gassendi crater
Object Type: Moon
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country)
Date: 29-5-2015
Media: graphite pencil on white paper.

Hi

This is a sketch of the crater Gassendi, one of the most beautiful “fractured floor craters” on the moon.

The sketch was made through my 6” achromatic refractor (TS Individual 152/900), binoviewer, a pair of 8 mm eyepieces and glasspath at 293x. The seeing was variable, usually bad but with very good moments of few seconds that allowed me to perceive the structure called “Rima Gassendi”: a pattern of fractures inside the crater.

I hope you to enjoy with this sketch.

If you wish to read more about this observational report and others, please visit the web of my astronomical group (www.laotramitad.org).

Best regards.

David Sedano

5 thoughts on “Crater Gassendi”

  1. David,

    This is a nice capture of an interesting crater!
    Very well done!

    Per-Jonny.

  2. David,

    This is a very fine capture of crater Gassendi,
    you must be very happy with the result.

    Frank 🙂

  3. Thank you very much for your comments! I´m really happy with this sketch.

    David

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