IWLOP #090 - Pitatus
Large Nectarian Age crater with fractured walls located on southwestern edge of Mare Nubium.
Location: 29.8 S 13.5 W Origin: Impact Size: 97 km Rukl: 54, 64 Type: Complex Crater (CC)
Objects: Pitatus, Rimae Pitatus
Others Identified: Gauricus, Hesiodus, Hesiodus A, B, C, G, S, X, Y and Wurzelbauer
Location: Home
Date: 2021-03-22
Time: 9:45 PM ADT
Equipment: 10” Meade SCT, 4.7 mm eyepiece
Magnification: x530
Seeing: Very Good (4)
Transparency: Good (3)
Temp: 5º C
SQM: 18.63
R1: Pitatus on southern border of Mare Nubium. Very irregular and poorly defined rim due to fractures and impacts. Large central peak is off-centre. Walls in the northwest are particularly eroded.
C1: Could easily see Rimae Pitatus along the NE and East side close to the rim. Also saw a bit of the Rimae in the NW. Could see some approaching the off-centre peaks but most was seen just inside the crater wall on the floor. The eastern floor was just a bit darker than the western floor.
