First Identified Crater! (for me anyways)

If you look close at the largest crater near the lefthand side you can see two smaller craters within the larger creater along the terminator (where the sunlight and the darkness meet). I have yet been able to find the name of this crater, but once i do i will update it here!

UPDATE: the crater mentioned above is named "Clavius".

Looking at Clavius in more detail in my lunar atlas, and on the web, shows the 2 Craters shown are actually apart of a chain of about 4 impact craters, all creating an arcing pattern. The 4 impact Craters that reside in Clavius probably all came from the same object.

Clavius is 225km in diameter.

UPDATE 2: March 10th, 2005 New Information, and new Observations from Old Images
My image shows the 2 Largest Craters inside Clavius are called Clavius C and Clavius D.





Directly Above Clavius, there is another well known crater, I would say its one of the most observed because of the Rays this Crater produced on impact. The Crater's name is Tycho, and the Rays it genterated can be found as far as 1500km away!!! Unfortunatly, they are not visable in this image, another note about Tycho, is the central mountain peak inside the crater is about 1.6km high. Tych is also considered to a very young impact crater.


Date: 7/25/2004
Time: 9:30PM
Location: Frontyard of 111 Reed
Seeing: Good
Site Conditions: n/a
Eyepiece Used: n/a
Instrument: NexStar 114GT with 4330DX