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Craters Longomontanus and Tycho 17 March 2020, LacailleOz

Craters Longomontanus and Tycho 17 March 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Craters Longomontanus and Tycho 17 March 2020, LacailleOz

Craters Longomontanus and Tycho 17 March 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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A rare lunar image from me, taken to help a school student I am working with who wishes to learn lunar imaging this year. Good seeing conditions prevailed at 0500 local time, and I used a mono camera with an IR 685nm filter to steady the seeing still further. I ran off merely one video of 60 seconds at maximum sensor for this shot, intending to supply a tif file for the student to practice sharpening software with. However it did turn into perhaps my best lunar close-up yet. I then struggled to identify the craters from my moon map - the one on the right resembled Longomontanus, but could that really be Tycho, resembling a black Pit of Doom? Turns out it was, but with a fairly extreme 7 degrees easterly libration that means Tycho is still visible, though deep in shadow, where normally it would be beyond the terminator.

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Craters Longomontanus and Tycho 17 March 2020, LacailleOz

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