Crater – Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings

Copernicus

The 93-mile diameter crater, Copernicus, caught my eye the moment I looked at the Moon through my telescope two nights ago, and I just had to take this photo. The ragged rubble and distant pockmarks so clearly displayed in the lunar sunrise speak of the extreme violence with which a hypervelocity object struck the MoonContinue reading “Copernicus”

Two Heavenly Piccolominis

At a recent wine tasting my ears perked up at the sound of the Italian “Piccolomini” wine since I am well familiar with a crater on the Moon of the same name. In the lower cental photo, the crater is next to the bottle of wine. Piccolomini crater is 53 miles in diameter and hasContinue reading “Two Heavenly Piccolominis”

Rainbows and Showers

Like a blister, the “Bay of Rainbows” (Sinus Iridium) pouches out from the Ocean of Showers (Mare Imbrium) on the Moon. The bay is rimmed by the remains of the semicircular wall of a large crater seen catching the rays of the rising sun in this image. Perhaps this is the rainbow that the cartographerContinue reading “Rainbows and Showers”