Moon Detail - Tycho Crater

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The exposure was taken in the prime-focus of a 25" Ritchey-Chretien telescope with an opening of 63cm and a F-Ratio of 1:8.7 . Taking in account the crop factor of 1.6 for the chip it was an effective focal length of about 8.5m ! See here [link] for a picture of the telescope. The picture was taken with a Canon D20.

What do you see:
The big crater from which the white rays seem to originate is the crater Tycho, named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe. It has a diameter of 85km/53miles and is 4.8km/3miles deep. Wikipedia [link] has a a good article on it.
Also a nice sidenote, Tycho is the location where the black monolith is found in the movie "2001-space odysee".

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