The Lunascan Project presents
TYCHO
Directory - Section 64

Updated 23 Oct 2011
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:
Since many EBTI's are not kept long on the internet is best to use Google for these images.
Image - Deslandres (Fattinnanzi) Newton 200 f6, Phillips vesta-pro webcam
Image - Tycho (Sussenbach)
Image - Tycho (Lunascan, 960807 event)
Image - Tycho (Ferreira)
Image - Tycho, Clavius & South Pole: MPS (Legault) Rotated 90 ccw
Image - Tycho (Massey)
Image - Tycho, sunrise on peaks (Massey)
Image - Tycho & Pitatus & Section 64 & 54 (Cazard)
Image - Tycho (Genovese)
Image - Tycho & Ray System (Genovese)

LUNAR ORBITER IMAGES:
Lunar & Planetary Institute:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ (Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/ (Photo Gallery)
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:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/ (Apollo Image Atlas)
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/ (Apollo Surface Panoramas)

CLEMENTINE IMAGES:
Image - Awesome false-color, close-up of Tycho

<>KAGUYA/SELENE IMAGES:
http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/selene_viewer/en/observation_mission/tc/013/tycho_anaglyph.html

LUNAR RECONNAISANCE ORBITER IMAGES
http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/
See report below

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)
Tycho event  8/21/92 (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)