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Tycho impact crater captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. + 2x Barlow lens 



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Tycho is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). To the south is the crater Street; to the east is Pictet, and to the north-northeast is Sasserides. The surface around Tycho is replete with craters of various sizes, many overlapping still older craters. Some of the smaller craters are secondary craters formed from larger chunks of ejecta from Tycho.
Tycho is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years (Ma), based on analysis of samples of the crater rays recovered during the Apollo 17 mission. This age suggests that the impactor may have been a member of the Baptistina family of asteroids, but as the composition of the impactor is unknown this is currently conjecture.

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Tycho impact crater captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam.
Light yellow filter + IR-cut filter
Observing conditions: Good but Moon halo



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Tycho crater taken through a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam.
Light yellow filter + UV + IR-cut filter.
2X achromatic Barlow lens.



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Tycho crater captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam.
2X Barlow lens.
Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter



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