Moon: Crater Longomontanus and surrounding area

This is a photo covering an area of about 1000km by 600km, centered roughly on the Crater Longomontanus (the largest crater located between the oblong crater to the left [Schiller] and the crater with the conspicuous central peak [Tycho]).

 

This photo was taken on Jan 5, 2012 at 5:51pm PST (age=12.23 days, approaching full).

 

Some of the conspicuous craters include:

Hainzel (near top to left of center)

Tycho (conspicuous crater to right with peak)

Wilhelm (above Longomontanus, to upper left of Tycho)

Pictet (to lower right of Tycho)

Street (below and slightly to the left of Tycho)

Stoefler (to right of Tycho)

Schjiller (large, apparently oblong crater to left of center)

Rost (pair of craters to right of Schiller)

Phocylides (crater wtih bright wall below and to left of Schiller)

 

Craters down to about 3 miles can be seen and identified on this map.

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