Cassini

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Observations

IDDescription
862Looking over the lunar landscape - March 12, 2003 01:04 UT 

Colongitude: 15°.3, Sunrise Terminator: 164°.7 E In 20x70 binoculars, Cassini appears as an oval, shallow crater on the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium, south of the Montes Alpes mountain range. A small crater lies near the center of Cassini.

341Looking over the lunar landscape - February 21, 2002 01:32 UT 

The large Cassini crater lies at the end of the Montes Alpes mountain chain east of Mons Piton. In the 114mm reflector at 182x with the 10mm eyepiece and 2x barlow combination, the Cassini A craterlet is easily visible almost in the center of the Cassini crater. The Cassini B craterlet is also visible on the southwest side of the Cassini crater.

 






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