Clavius & Tycho

NOTES DATE: August 20, 1999 FILM: Kodak Kodachrome 25 EXPOSURE: ~3 seconds LOCATION: Kalamazoo Nature Center INSTRUMENT: Meade 10" LX200 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer and 26 mm Plossl eyepiece PROCESSING: Slide scanned with Epson Perfection 3200.  Further enhancements made with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 COMMENTS: Clavius is the large crater at the bottom of this image.  It is name for Christoph Klau Clavius (1537 - 1612) who was a German mathematician and astronomer and described as the Euclid of the sixteenth century.  Clavius measures an astounding 225 km (139.8 miles) in diameter.  The largest crater inside Clavius is called Rutherfurd; after the American astronomer Lewis M. Rutherfurd (1816 - 1892).  Tycho is the prominent crater just below the center of the image and has a large central peak.  Tycho is named after the legendary Danish astronomer with the golden nose Tycho Brahe.  Tycho is 85 km (52.8 miles) in diameter and his the most extensive ray system on the Moon.