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Brought my Celestron NexStar 6SE out on a camping trip last weekend and pointed it at the moon (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by thrawn21@lemmy.world to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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Was out with a bunch of fellow geologists, who all got a kick out of looking at Saturn and the moon. Was only taking pictures with my phone, and so didn't get a good shot of Saturn, but thought this one of the moon was nice.

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[–] ns1@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not an expert but I'd guess that is Tycho crater, and the stripes are called its ray system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_system

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Interesting, thank you for the reply! Learned something new today. The lines I see span over a quarter or so of the moon, so I'm not fully convinced yet. Absolute massive.