Sunday, October 29, 2023

A Hunter’s Moon

I squeezed off this photo from the backyard, using the Nikon P900 braced against a fence post.

The massive crater on the bottom is Tycho, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).

The Tycho Crater is estimated to be about 108 million years old, which is about one-quarter of the age of the Catoctin Greenstone under my feet, which is also older than trees, older than bones, older than the rings of Saturn, and older than the North Star.

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