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Tycho is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands. It is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years. The crater is sharply defined and free of the wear that affects older craters. The crater is surrounded by a distinctive ray system forming long spokes that reach as long as 1,500 kilometers. |
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Equipment |
Celestron 9¼" at f/7.5 on a Celestron CGE equatorial mount SBIG ST-8XM camera SBIG CFW-10 filter wheel with Astrodon TruBalance LRGB filters Clement Bellerphon focuser Optec Pyxis camera rotator Unguided imaging with MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Exposure | Single 0.11-second unbinned frame, through a hydrgen-alpha filter, -30°C |
| Processing |
Levels and curves, unsharp mask in Photoshop CS2 |
| Date and Location |
4 November 2006 Montpelier, VA N 37° 49' 12", W 77° 42' 06" |