Longomontanus (moon crater)
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Longomontanus is the shallow crater to the left below the prominent Tycho (in the middle). Moon age 10 days (waxing moon) | ||
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position | 49.55 ° S , 21.89 ° W | |
diameter | 146 km | |
Card sheet | 125 (PDF) | |
Named after | Longomontanus (Christian Severin) (1562–1647) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Longomontanus is an old, heavily eroded moon crater in the southern highlands southwest of the well-known Tycho crater .
The crater has a diameter of about 160 km. Its inner surface is almost flat, but the crater edges are heavily eroded.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 52.96 ° S , 24.25 ° W | 30 km | [1] |
B. | 52.93 ° S , 20.92 ° W | 46 km | [2] |
C. | 53.5 ° S , 19.18 ° W | 33 km | [3] |
D. | 54.37 ° S , 23.01 ° W | 25 km | [4] |
E. | 51.36 ° S , 18.2 ° W | 7 km | [5] |
F. | 48.26 ° S , 23.82 ° W | 19 km | [6] |
G | 48.71 ° S , 18.6 ° W | 13 km | [7] |
H | 52.03 ° S , 23.41 ° W | 7 km | [8th] |
K | 47.91 ° S , 21.08 ° W | 16 km | [9] |
L. | 49.08 ° S , 23.8 ° W | 15 km | [10] |
M. | 48.59 ° S , 23.4 ° W | 10 km | [11] |
N | 50.93 ° S , 25.95 ° W | 10 km | [12] |
P | 48.12 ° S , 25.41 ° W | 7 km | [13] |
Q | 52.07 ° S , 20.69 ° W | 10 km | [14] |
R. | 52.44 ° S , 26.44 ° W | 7 km | [15] |
S. | 47.34 ° S , 23.43 ° W | 12 km | [16] |
T | 46.8 ° S , 22.84 ° W | 5 km | [17] |
U | 51.99 ° S , 22.19 ° W | 6 km | [18] |
V | 50.79 ° S , 19.12 ° W | 5 km | [19] |
W. | 47.14 ° S , 21.46 ° W | 10 km | [20] |
X | 52.96 ° S , 17.88 ° W | 5 km | [21] |
Y | 52.41 ° S , 28.5 ° W | 4 km | [22] |
Z | 49.99 ° S , 18.49 ° W | 100 km | [23] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Danish astronomer and mathematician Christian Severin (Latinized Longomontanus ).
Web links
- Longomontanus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Longomontanus on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum .de: amateur recordings: [24]