Rükl 58

Rükl Zone 58 - FRACASTORIUS

Neighboring maps on the Rükl Nearside Map:

46	47	48
57	58	59
67	68	69

Photographic Map

(This map is based on an Earth-based photograph that has been computer-corrected to zero libration. The vertical white lines indicate the left and right boundaries of the Rükl rectangle)
 
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Named Features

• Beaumont
• Beaumont Delta (hill south of Beaumont and Beaumont M) (see Chart 85 in the Times Atlas of the Moon).
• Beaumont's Twenty Nine East Ridge (an unofficial name from D.Caes for the officially unnamed ridge at 29° East, north of Beaumont) (see also Chart 47 for the northern part of it near Theophilus and Madler) (note: the name Twenty Nine East Ridge is some sort of lunar equivalent of the terrestrial Ninety East Ridge on the floor of the Indian Ocean).
• Bohnenberger
• Bohnenberger Lambda (small hill between Bohnenberger A and Santbech M) (see Chart 86 in the Times Atlas of the Moon).
• Dorsa Bohnenberger (an unofficial name from D.Caes for the system of wrinkle ridges west of Bohnenberger, at the eastern part of Mare Nectaris).
• Fracastorius (Van Langren's Nassauii, J.Hewelcke's Lacus Thospitis).
• Mare Nectaris (Van Langren's Sinus Batavicus, J.Hewelcke's Sinus Extremus Ponti).
• Montes Pyrenaeus (J.Hewelcke's Montes Caucasus).
• Palus Areesa (J.Hewelcke's disallowed name for a low-albedo area southwest of Fracastorius).
• Palus Lychnitis (J.Hewelcke's disallowed name for a low-albedo area southwest of Santbech).
• Palus Mantiana (J.Hewelcke's disallowed name for a low-albedo area southeast of Fracastorius).
• Piccolomini (Van Langren's Noyelles, J.Hewelcke's Montes Sogdiani).
• Richard's Ridge (a strange case, according to W.R.Birt's descriptions this should have been a name for a ridge near Fracastorius, see Lunar Objects Suitable for Observation, December 1879, page 298).
• Romana (a disallowed name from H.P.Wilkins for Fracastorius D, or... perhaps for the exceptionally bright ray-crater Polybius A on Chart 57)(?).
• Rosse (J.F.J.Schmidt's Beer).
• Rosse's Ghost (a nickname from D.Caes for the ghost-crater north-northeast of Rosse).
• Santbech Zeta (elongated hill southwest of Santbech, west-northwest of Santbech A).
• Terra Vigoris (Riccioli's discontinued name for the southern half of Chart 58).
• Trifid crater (a nickname from D.Caes for the unusual triangle-shaped depression at the eastern disappearing end of the rim of Fracastorius).
• Voutzinas (F.C.Lamech's disallowed name for Fracastorius B).
• Weinek

Lettered Crater Locations

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Lettered craters by quadrants

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Additional Information

• Other online descriptions of features in this Rükl map section:
  • UAI guide
  • Hitchhiker's Guide

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