The Beauty of the Moon: The Tycho Crater

This post is purely to share the beauty that is around us.  I can spend hours just looking at the moon in a scope and it never gets old.  This is an HDR picture of the moon I took recently which is 3 pictures of the moon stacked together.   I broke out my bigger telescope to get more detail of that beautiful lunar surface.  

Scope:  Celestron Edge 8 HD 

Camera:  Nikon 5300

Mount:  Celeston AVX

Processing Software:  Affinity Photo

It was still a little light in the sky when I took the image and that is why the background is still blue instead of black.  

If you look towards the bottom right of the moon there is one crater that stands out.  It is one of the brightest craters we see This is Tycho Crater.  It is 85 km in diameters and 4.8 km deep.   The crater is 108 million years old, making it a fairly young crate relatively speaking.  In the center of the crater is a peak complex that itself stands 1.6 km above the crater floor.   You can just make out the speck of

Here is a zoomed in image of the Tycho Crater.  You can just make out the raised peak in the center of the crater.