Tycho

Tycho may refer to:

  • Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Danish nobleman and astronomer
  • Tycho van Meer (born 1974), Dutch field hockey striker
  • Tommy Tycho (born 1928), Hungarian-Australian pianist, conductor, composer

In astronomy:

  • Tycho (crater), on the Moon
  • Tycho Brahe (crater), on Mars
  • The Tycho-1 Catalogue or Tycho-2 Catalogue of stars
  • SN 1572, a supernova remnant, often called Tycho's supernova
  • Tycho G, the companion star of SN 1572

In fiction:

  • Tycho, a desert ranger henchman from the computer game Fallout
  • Tycho, a shipboard AI in the computer game Marathon
  • Tycho Brahe, a character from the Penny Arcade webcomic
  • Tycho Celchu, a character in the Star Wars Universe
  • Brother-Captain Tycho, a character in the Warhammer 40,000 universe

In software engineering:

  • Tycho, an Apache Maven plugin for building Eclipse (software) programs.

In music:

  • Tycho, the electronic music persona of graphic designer Scott Hansen.

Famous quotes containing the word tycho:

    “In mathematics he was greater
    Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
    For he, by geometric scale,
    Could take the size of pots of ale;
    Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
    If bread and butter wanted weight;
    And wisely tell what hour o’ th’ day
    The clock doth strike, by algebra.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)