One of the best planetary photographer in the world is the British Damian Peach. Recently he captured an extraordinary high resolution image of northern Hipparchus crater area. Inside Hipparchus near their rim we find Horrocks crater, a 31 kilometers wide circular formation of high walls with terraces. Its name comes from the 17th century astronomer and priest born in England, Jeremiah Horrocks.

To the North-East the big crater not fully shown in this picture is Pickering.

This is a hard to beat record, because the resolution of this image is no less than 0.1 arcseconds per pixel. Awesome!

by Damian Peach on 2009-05-01 01:11:51 [Original Size] - [Next Image] - [Author's gallery]