71.Schiller

Area at the south-western front side of the Moon. We see two Moon basins, the first resembles the crater Bailley, the second still unnamed we find in-between Schiller, Zucchius and Phoclydides.

BAILLY - Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736 - 1793) French astronomer and politician.

Crater. (303km Ø ) (4,300m) (66.8°S, 69.4°W) Heavily eroded, many craterlets on the rim and the floor.

BAYER - Johann Bayer (1572 - 1682) German astronomer. Created the first complete sky atlas, with coordinates. He gave the stars their Greek letters of designation. (Uranometria 1604)

Crater. (47km Ø ) (2,000m) (51.6°S, 35.0°W) Circular, flat floor with satellite crater and craterlets, slopes and rim with craterlets.

BETTINUS - Mario Bettinie (1582 - 1657) Italian philosopher and mathematician.

Crater. (71km Ø ) (3,800m) (63.4°S, 44.8°W) Terraced irregular walls, central mountain, craterlets on the rim.

HAUSEN - Christian A. Hausen (1693 - 1743) German astronomer physicist and mathematician.

Crater. (167km Ø ) (3,900m) (65.5°S, 88.4°W) Circular with terraced walls, a rough floor sprinkled with small hills, and a central mountain.

KIRCHER - Athanasius Kircher (1601 - 1680) German mathematician.

Crater. (72km Ø ) (4,300m) (67.1°S, 45.3°W) Circular, flat floor, sprinkled with craterlets.

ROST - Leonhardt Rost (1688 - 1727) German amateur astronomer and popularizer of astronomy.

Crater. (48km Ø ) (2,000m) (56.4°S, 33.7°W) Circular, low rim, twinned with Rost A. (39 km) (56.5° S 36.7° W).

SCHILLER - Julius Schiller (ca. 1627) German monk, author of "Coelum Stellarum Christianum" (1627).

Crater. (179 × 71 km Ø ) (3,900m) (51.8°S, 40.0°W) Shaped like a footprint, or a mouse, as seen from above.

SEGNER - Johann Andeas von Segner (1704 - 1777) German physicist and inventor.

Crater. (67km Ø ) (1,300m) (58.9°S, 48.3°W) Low rim partly overlapped by Zucchius. Eroded.

WEIGEL - Erhard Weigel (1625 - 1699) German astronomer, mathematician and teacher.

Crater. (35km Ø ) (2,300m) (58.2°S, 38.8°W) Rim covered by a number of satellite craters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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ZUCCHIUS - Niccolo Zucchini (1586 - 1670) Italian mathematician and astronomer one of the first to observe the bands of clouds on Jupiter.

Crater. (64 km Ø ) (3,200m) (61.4°S, 50.3°W) Circular, terraced walls, central hills.

 

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