by yaska77
We love awesome images, and having shown you several of our own Moon photos on this blog I wanted to highlight this superb picture.
Click to enlarge (it's stunning) - Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
On 10th June 2011, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this dramatic sunrise view of the moon’s Tycho crater.
A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37°S, 348.68°E, and is about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. The summit of the central peak is 1.24 miles (2 km) above the crater floor. The distance from Tycho’s floor to its rim is about 2.92 miles (4.7 km).
Tycho crater’s central peak complex, shown in the NASA image, is about 9.3 miles (15 km) wide, left to right (southeast to northwest in this view).
Tycho is surrounded by a distinctive ray system forming long spokes (some reach as far as 1,500 km) - Credit: Sky-Watching/A.Welbourn
In our image above (taken with a Canon Eos 550D and a Sky- Watcher 200P Newtonian Reflector Telescope) Tycho can be seen to the bottom right of the full Moon. Certainly brings home the clarity of the NASA image taken from orbit!
Stunning!
Source: NASA Image of the Day
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