~ Waxing Gibbous (12 day old) Moon with bright ray systems of Tycho & Copernicus craters ~
On the 5th August 2025 ~
On the 5th August 2025 ~
Tycho crater is a very prominent crater, it’s one of the youngest on the lunar surface, and its approximate age is about 100 million years, that’s very young compared with the total age of the Moon at over 4 billion years old!
From after the 9-day-old phase you’ll start to see more and more of this ray system that’s connected to the ejected material that was produced from the impact that caused Tycho crater. By the full Moon phase (14 days old) you can trace the distance of these many ejected rays to over 1500 km across the lunar surface.
The other large impact crater seen here not far off the termination line is the crater Copernicus, which has a complex terraced wall with a large central mountain range in the middle. You can spend a lot of time at the eyepiece just looking around this area, as the detail is just incredible!
An excellent book that I use that teaches me everything I need to know about the Moon is
Hamlyn ‘Atlas of the Moon’ by Antonin Rukl.
Every night the Moon offers up so much to see as the sunlight illuminates different features along the termination line right up to the full Moon phase, then after that you get to see everything in reverse with all the light and shadows going in the opposite direction.
My image was taken with the little Seestar S50 telescope, 25 images were captured then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
From after the 9-day-old phase you’ll start to see more and more of this ray system that’s connected to the ejected material that was produced from the impact that caused Tycho crater. By the full Moon phase (14 days old) you can trace the distance of these many ejected rays to over 1500 km across the lunar surface.
The other large impact crater seen here not far off the termination line is the crater Copernicus, which has a complex terraced wall with a large central mountain range in the middle. You can spend a lot of time at the eyepiece just looking around this area, as the detail is just incredible!
An excellent book that I use that teaches me everything I need to know about the Moon is
Hamlyn ‘Atlas of the Moon’ by Antonin Rukl.
Every night the Moon offers up so much to see as the sunlight illuminates different features along the termination line right up to the full Moon phase, then after that you get to see everything in reverse with all the light and shadows going in the opposite direction.
My image was taken with the little Seestar S50 telescope, 25 images were captured then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
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