Monday, 2 February 2015

Astronomy through telescope. Crater Tycho in Registax.

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Tycho is without question the most interesting southern crater on the Moon. It is small but from it starts rays hundreds of kilometers around it.

Tycho (43ºS 11ºW) has a diameter of 86 km. It is a complex crater with a terraced interior wall and central peaks. This recent crater has a bright ray model, extending for hundreds of kilometers. Extensive impact secondary fields , are visible on the surrounding terrain.

Here, Tycho is half in the dark, shadow that bypasses the central peak on the floor, being left in the light.

The images captures a much larger area around Tycho, craters that are more in number which is a feature of the South. We can observe Orontius (122 km), Sasserides (90 km), Saussure (54 km), Maginus (163 km), Heraclitus and Licetus (90/75 km), Cuvier (75 km) and the list continues.
Since the telescope moved on a wider area, Registax program has taken all the frames and created a wonderful picture of the area.

You can watch the video from which I've extracted the images and simple video captures, in other articles.

170 video frames in Registax.

Tycho crater info.
Coordinates43.31°S 11.36°
Diameter86 km
Depth4.8 km
Colongitude12° at sunrise
EponymTycho Brahe


Moon Age: 9.05 days
Phase: 70.5% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 399.221 km


Optics (telescope or lenses): Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, eyepiece 20mm Plossl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 10/03/2014
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax,  FastStone Image Viewer



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