Longomontanus (moon crater)

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Longomontanus
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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)
Longomontanus (Moon South Pole Region)
Longomontanus
position 49.55 °  S , 21.89 °  W Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 21 ° 53 ′ 24 ″  W.
diameter 146 km
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Named after Longomontanus (Christian Severin) (1562–1647)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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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.

List of side craters of Longomontanus
Letter position diameter link
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 ).

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