Regiomontanus (moon crater)

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Regiomontanus
Purbach + Regiomontanus + Werner - LROC - WAC.JPG
Regiomontanus and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
Regiomontanus (moon equatorial region)
Regiomontanus
position 28.28 °  S , 0.81 °  W Coordinates: 28 ° 16 '48 "  S , 0 ° 48' 36"  W.
diameter 110 km
depth 3610 m
Card sheet 95 (PDF)
Named after Regiomontanus (1436–1476)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Regiomontanus is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon , east of Mare Nubium , immediately south of Purbach crater and west of Werner .

The oval rim of the crater is very badly eroded.

List of minor craters of Regiomontanus
Letter position diameter link
A. 28.06 °  S , 0.78 °  W 6 km [1]
B. 29.09 °  S , 3.82 °  W 10 km [2]
C. 28.79 °  S , 5.3 °  W 7 km [3]
E. 28.27 °  S , 6.34 °  W 6 km [4]
F. 27.84 °  S , 2.07 °  W 11 km [5]
G 28.37 °  S , 3.53 °  W 4 km [6]
H 28.65 °  S , 4.15 °  W 6 km [7]
J 29.44 °  S , 1.99 °  W 8 kilometers [8th]
K 30.32 °  S , 0.13 °  W 6 km [9]
L. 29.72 °  S , 0.9 °  E 6 km [10]
M. 29.59 °  S , 2.2 °  W 5 km [11]
N 28.93 °  S , 0.03 °  O 3 km [12]
R. 28.45 °  S , 0.11 °  W 3 km [13]
S. 28.61 °  S , 2.07 °  W 3 km [14]
T 28.3 °  S , 2.96 °  W 4 km [15]
U 27.97 °  S , 3.6 °  W 12 km [16]
W. 29.49 °  S , 1.45 °  W 3 km [17]
Y 30.18 °  S , 1.7 °  W 5 km [18]
Z 27.51 °  S , 3.03 °  W 6 km [19]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer and mathematician Regiomontanus (actually Johannes Müller).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .