BRIEF DESCRIPTION
A crater field south of Mare Nubium is dominated by the crater Tycho,
which is one of the most prominent craters on the Moon and the center of
the most extensive system of bright rays. Surveyor 7 soft-landed close to
the northern rim of Tycho. Refer to your Antonin Rukl lunar atlas chart,
page 155.
EARTH BASED TELESCOPIC IMAGES:
Image
- Deslandres (Fattinnanzi) Newton 200 f6, Phillips vesta-pro webcam
Image
- Deslandres (Cazard)
Image
- Deslandres (Poyet)
Image - Longomontanus
region (Dittmer)
Image
- Pitatus (Poyet)
Image
- Tycho (Sussenbach)
Image
- Tycho (Lunascan, 960807 event)
Image -
Tycho (Ferreira)
Image
- Tycho (Poyet)
Image
- Tycho, Clavius & South Pole: MPS (Legault)
Rotated 90 ccw
Image -
Tycho (Massey)
Image -
Tycho, sunrise on peaks (Massey)
Image - Tycho
(Cazard)
Image - Tycho
& Pitatus & Section 64 & 54 (Cazard)
Image -
Tycho (Genovese)
Image -
Tycho & Ray System (Genovese)
LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Digital Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
Ball, 41 km
Brown, 34 km
Deslandres, 234 km
Gauricus, 79 km
Heinsius, 64 km
Hell, 33 km
Montanari, 77 km
Pictet, 62 km
Pitatus, 97 km
Sasserides, 90 km
Street, 58 km
Tycho, 85 km
Image
- Fantastic LO5 close-up of full crater.
Image
- LO-5 128h2, rugged terrain, ejecta deposit N. of Tycho
Wilhelm, 107 km
Wurzelbauer, 88 km
APOLLO IMAGES:
Apollo Image Atlas: http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/research/apollo/index.html
Image
- AS16-4658(P) - Apollo 16 imaged Ranger 9 impact crater
CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
Image - Awesome
false-color, close-up of Tycho
RESEARCH UPDATES:
Tycho
Event of 5/9/03 - Griffith Observatory LTP Report & Analyses
Tycho - Lunar
Views (Lunascan)
Tycho Observation,
20 Sept 2000, (Ferreira)
Tycho From LO5
(NASA/Lunascan)
Tycho Through
The Month (Dinsmore Alter)
A Village on the
Moon? (Bara)
Lunar Anomalies
Site, Tycho & Plato (Bara)
Tycho event
8/21/92 (ALPO, Darling)
Tycho Update,
5/13/96 (Ridge/Darling)
Tycho
Update, 25 May 1996 (ALPO, Darling)
Session #18,
8/7/96 Tycho event (Lunascan)
Session #20,
8/22/96 & Frame Grab (Lunascan)
Blow-up of
Tycho's peak (Clementine image)