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==Description: Wikipedia== | ==Description: Wikipedia== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily_(crater) Baily]<br /> <br /> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily_(crater) Baily]<br /> <br /> | ||
==Additional Information== | ==Additional Information== | ||
| − | * Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher% | + | * Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher%20Crater%20Depths|Kurt Fisher database]] |
** Pike, 1976: 0.52 km | ** Pike, 1976: 0.52 km | ||
** Westfall, 2000: 0.52 km | ** Westfall, 2000: 0.52 km | ||
Latest revision as of 01:41, 16 April 2018
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Baily
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Lat: 49.7°N, Long: 30.4°E, Diam: 26 km, Depth: 0.52 km, Rükl 6 |
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
- The system of unnamed rimae and the elongated depression south of Baily B were captured on Lunar Orbiter 4's photographs LOIV-86-h3 and 91-h3. They are interesting telescopic targets for observers of the Baily region. Research: Danny Caes
Maps
(LAC zone 13C4) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) BAILY.--A small ring-plain, N. of Burg, flanked by mountains, with a large bright crater on the E. The group of mountains standing about midway between it and Burg are very noteworthy.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Pike, 1976: 0.52 km
- Westfall, 2000: 0.52 km
- Satellite crater Baily K is on the ALPO list of bright ray craters.
Nomenclature
- Named for Francis Baily (28 April 1774 – 30 August 1844), an English astronomer, most famous for his observations of 'Baily's Beads' during an eclipse of the Sun.
- The shallow rille which runs straight through Baily is unofficially called Rima Baily by D.Caes.
- The system of rilles and the elongated depression south-southwest of Baily B are unofficially called Rimae Baily B by D.Caes.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Francis Baily and his beads in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- In: Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- Page 191: Baily's Beads (Lewis Swift, Sidereal Messenger, 1890) (mentioned as "Bailey's Beads").
- Page 193: Baily's Beads (H.P.Hollis, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 1927).
