South is up in this image, more info below.

 

            
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 Taken under favorable seeing conditions,
            this image highlights in its very center the spectacular crater
            Tycho, the center of a vast bright ray system extending for thousands
            of miles across the lunar landscape. This 52 mile diameter crater
            has a stunning central peak, nearly a mile in height. Note the
            huge numbers of tiny craterlets around the periphery of Tyco.
            This is essentially the spatter from the original impact as the
            material was blasted at high speed in all directions. 

            
Just to the upper
            left is the large crater Maginus, and the large flat floored
            crater to the upper right is Longomontanus.

            
Processing: 200/1000
            best frames, MAP 55 alignment in Registax, Wavelets in PixInsight
            Pro, Levels and Contrast Masking In Photoshop CS3, Focus Magic
            Plugin.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 with 1.8x Barlow
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
CCD Camera:  Image Source DMK 31AU03.AS
Filter:  Hoya R72
Exposure:  1/60 sec  15fps
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing good, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  32F
Processing:  Registax, PixInsight Pro, Photoshop CS3, Focus Magic Plugin