Maginus

Lunar Feature

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Observations

IDDescription
876Looking over the lunar landscape - March 12, 2003 02:16 UT 

Colongitude: 16°.1, Sunrise Terminator: 163°.9 E In 20x70 binoculars, Maginus appears as an oval-shaped crater with wide, sloping walls lying southeast of crater Clavius in a heavily cratered and tormented area near the southern pole. The floor of the crater appears flat and unmarked.

350Looking over the lunar landscape - February 21, 2002 02:30 UT 

In the 114mm reflector at 121x with the 7.5mm eyepiece, Maginus appears as a large crater with a well defined eastern wall which becomes very indistinct on the western side. The western crater wall is riddled with craterlets. The center of the crater appears to be a mound and has many craterlets scattered along the surface.

 






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