Craters Hypatia & Catharina 18/02/21

            Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a William Optics 70mm refractor, Celestron 3x Barlow and ASI120MC camera, when the Moon was a 40% illuminated Waxing Crescent. A 2,000 frame video shot with SharpCap Pro, the best 25% were stacked with Autostakkert! 3 then processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

Only 1.8% of the named lunar craters are named after women, but this segment of the Moon shows two of them.  
Hypatia was born sometime around 350 - 370 BC, and she was a very well respected mathematician and astronomer from Egypt who taught philosophy and astronomy at her father's school. She became a martyr for philosophy following her murder. 
St. Catharina was a Christian martyr.  However, what's interesting is that Catharina was a legendary figure who is thought to have been based on Hypatia, so technically Hypatia has two craters named after her. I find it funny that the mythical figure got the larger of the two craters!
   

Taken on: February 18, 2021

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Sets appears in: • 2021 Astronomy Photos • Lunar Highlights Gallery more » • Moon • Astronomy Photos « less

Groups appears in: • Moon Watch • The Jodcast more » • BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live • Universe Today • Astro For Fun • UK Women in Astronomy Network Astrophotography Group « less

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