Schiller (moon crater)
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position | 51.75 ° S , 39.83 ° W | |
diameter | 179 km | |
depth | 2500 m | |
Card sheet | 125 (PDF) | |
Named after | Julius Schiller († 1627) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Schiller is an impact crater to the south of the lunar front , east of Phocylides crater and northwest of Clavius . Schiller has a peculiar, elongated-oval shape, with the longitudinal axis pointing to the northwest (in the approximate direction of the Mare Orientale ). At the northern end there is an elongated, comb-like elevation, otherwise the crater floor is largely flat.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 47.17 ° S , 37.73 ° W | 11 km | [1] |
B. | 48.88 ° S , 39.17 ° W | 17 km | [2] |
C. | 55.36 ° S , 49.29 ° W | 45 km | [3] |
D. | 55.05 ° S , 49.33 ° W | 9 km | [4] |
E. | 54.59 ° S , 48.79 ° W | 8 kilometers | [5] |
F. | 50.66 ° S , 43.01 ° W | 13 km | [6] |
G | 51.23 ° S , 38.34 ° W | 9 km | [7] |
H | 50.63 ° S , 37.69 ° W | 72 km | [8th] |
J | 49.65 ° S , 36.75 ° W | 8 kilometers | [9] |
K | 46.7 ° S , 38.81 ° W | 10 km | [10] |
L. | 47.12 ° S , 40.26 ° W | 10 km | [11] |
M. | 48.22 ° S , 41.29 ° W | 9 km | [12] |
N | 53.62 ° S , 42.03 ° W | 6 km | [13] |
P | 53.58 ° S , 43.68 ° W | 6 km | [14] |
R. | 52.25 ° S , 45.87 ° W | 8 kilometers | [15] |
S. | 54.97 ° S , 40.37 ° W | 22 km | [16] |
T | 50.73 ° S , 41.33 ° W | 7 km | [17] |
W. | 54.51 ° S , 41.11 ° W | 16 km | [18] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Julius Schiller .
Web links
- Schiller in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Schiller on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [19] [20]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .