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Kannan A
Singapore
02/14/2022
08:30 pm

Equipment Details:

Nikon Coolpix P900

Image Details:

A close up of the waxing gibbous moon at about 95% full and I had cropped the picture to highlight the Tycho crater, a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).[1] It is estimated to be 108 million years old. This was shot from my Nikon Camera without the aid of any additional equipment. It is amazing to see the details with a tiny little camera, thanks to technology !

To the south of Tycho 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. It is one of the Moon's brightest craters with a diameter of 85 km (53 mi) and a depth of 4,800 m (15,700 ft).

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