Look at the unusual “family portrait” of the Moon and the ISS. This photo was taken by an amateur

The photo shows how the International Space Station appears to be flying over the Tycho crater.

. In fact, the ISS is still in Earth orbit. This illusion arises due to the peculiarities of optics and the photographer’s successful angle.

The diameter of the Tycho crater is 85 km.Despite its impressive size, by Lunar standards it is not that big. The almost perfectly round crater looks as if it appeared as a result of the collision of the Earth's natural satellite with an asteroid.

Tycho Crater is one of the most remarkableand visible on the surface of the Moon. It can be seen from Earth even with the help of a small telescope. All thanks to its brightness and rays that stretch from the funnel for hundreds of kilometers.

Tycho crater on the surface of the moon, Wikimedia Commons

It is noteworthy that the Apollo 17 missionlanded in the area through which one of the crater's rays passes. As part of the expedition, a fragment was brought to Earth, presumably knocked out during the formation of the crater. Isotope analysis showed that the crater appeared approximately 108 million years ago. This means that the Tycho crater appeared in the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs lived on Earth.

Andrew McCarthy is not a professional photographer; Heworks in sales and business operations for a software company. His astrophotography is a hobby he does in the backyard of his home in Sacramento, California.

Despite this, many of his photographs becameviral. Previously, Hi-Tech showed beautiful images of a massive plume of plasma emanating from the Sun and Mars, which appears from behind the Moon after an eclipse. He also told how McCarthy made a photograph of Jupiter from 600,000 images and the most detailed portrait of the Sun measuring 164 million pixels.

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