Image details:
Crater Tycho is a younger crater 108 million years estimated from the samples from the Apollo 17 mission. The crater is surrounded by a ray system, the massive impact that formed these rays flung lunar material far as 932 miles.
Tehnical details:
Optics: 8" inch SCT
Mount: Orion Skyview Pro Mount
Camera: Canon 60D
Date: October 4-2014
Location: From my backyard country observatory in Dekalb County Missouri
Exposure details: 1/125sec ISO-400
Processing: Photoshop CS6 (levels, unsharp mask, highpass filter linier light)
Crater Tycho is a younger crater 108 million years estimated from the samples from the Apollo 17 mission. The crater is surrounded by a ray system, the massive impact that formed these rays flung lunar material far as 932 miles.
Tehnical details:
Optics: 8" inch SCT
Mount: Orion Skyview Pro Mount
Camera: Canon 60D
Date: October 4-2014
Location: From my backyard country observatory in Dekalb County Missouri
Exposure details: 1/125sec ISO-400
Processing: Photoshop CS6 (levels, unsharp mask, highpass filter linier light)