Moon South-East region.
Taken by Mario J. Avila Sobarzo on March 16, 2019 @
Home’s front yard. Santiago, Chile.
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Downtown astronomy 24
Tycho is a young crater near moon´s south east polar side. Its diameter is about 85 kilometers across and easily recognizable.
Its well-known glassy-white rays are easily seen on binoculars during full moon phase.
Tycho crater is one of most attractive moon´s features for any downtown amateur or more experimented astronomers, I believe.
Most observed craters on this area are simples bowl type basins. Very few are complex craters with some central residual structure as Tycho itself.
There is an eye catching Tycho and crater Moretus structural light-shadow resemblance. This could be probably due a similar impact formation.
Other similar impact craters to Tycho and Moretus are Miller, Lilius and Rutherfurd inside Clavius.
Observing conditions: turbulent air currents (Antoniadi scale 3/5). Transparency 3/5. Unavoidable street light contamination and the like!.
Ye olde Meade SCT LX3. Orion 5MP. Sixty-two frames deconvoluted from 600 raw frames. PIPP/AS2.
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