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5. Tycho

Type: Crater

Geological period: Copernician (From -1.1 billions years to present days)

Size: Dimension: 88 x 88

Height: 4800.0m

Description:

Very young circular formation (100 millions of years). Very steep and tormented slopes supporting Street to the South Pictet to the East Tycho E to the North-West and Tycho B to the West. Very high walls in very important terraces. Flat floor. Central mountain 1 500 M high with three main summits. Crests and hills lines. Craterlets.

Position:

Longitude: 11.2° West

Latitude: 43.3° South

Quadrant: South-West

Area: Tycho crater region

 

Moon image taken on 04th December 2009.

Equipment: Celestron C8 at f10.0 with a Celestron CG5-GT mount.

Camera: Imaging Source DFK41AF FireWire video camera with IR cut filter.. FOV is ~8 x 11 arcmin, image scale ~0.5 arcsec per pixel

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Uploaded on December 12, 2009