Twenty-One-Day Tycho
A distinct system of rays signals that the bright crater Tycho is one of the moon's youngest. From the vantage point of the crater, the sun angle was low when the photograph was taken this morning (19 July 2022), throwing the surrounding highlands into stark relief. (Compare to my Eleven-Day Tycho from last year and also in my Sky and Space album.)
This is one of several lunar photographs I'm posting this week to commemorate the July 20 Apollo 11 landing fifty-three years ago. It is a choice video frame captured via eyepiece projection from a 25cm Newtonian reflecting telescope.
Twenty-One-Day Tycho
A distinct system of rays signals that the bright crater Tycho is one of the moon's youngest. From the vantage point of the crater, the sun angle was low when the photograph was taken this morning (19 July 2022), throwing the surrounding highlands into stark relief. (Compare to my Eleven-Day Tycho from last year and also in my Sky and Space album.)
This is one of several lunar photographs I'm posting this week to commemorate the July 20 Apollo 11 landing fifty-three years ago. It is a choice video frame captured via eyepiece projection from a 25cm Newtonian reflecting telescope.