Opelt
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Opelt
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Lat: 16.32°S, Long: 17.64°W, Diam: 48.73 km, Depth: 0.28 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2053 Rükl: 53] |
Table of Contents
[#Opelt Opelt]
[#Opelt-Images Images]
[#Opelt-Maps Maps]
[#Opelt-Description Description]
[#Opelt-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Opelt-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Opelt-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Opelt-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Opelt-Bibliography Bibliography]
LOIV 120 H2 Opelt is the large partial ring at center. The fresh 8 km crater at 7 o'clock, accompanied by hills, is Opelt E.
Images
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Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 94B1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Opelt
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 0.28 km
- Satellite crater Opelt E is on the [/ALPO%20list%20of%20banded%20craters ALPO list of banded craters]
Nomenclature
- Named for Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt (1794-September 23, 1863) and his son Otto Moritz Opelt (1829-1912).
- Opelt is Catalog number 2852 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List]. She attributes the name to [/Julius%20Schmidt Julius Schmidt], and notes that the feature was not named in the works in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876] or [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler]. Schmidt says on page 179 of his book that he intended to honor both of the men (F. W. and his son Moritz) who helped him prepare his 1878 edition of [/Lohrmann Lohrmann]'s 25-section map, however [/Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20Moon Who's Who in the Moon] mentioned only the father, and hence only that attribution was included when the USGS prepared the initial version of the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer].
- The name of O. M. Opelt was officially added to the IAU database on November 5, 2012, largely as a result of behind-the-scenes efforts by professional writer and amateur selenographer [/Robert%20Garfinkle Robert Garfinkle].
- According to [/Who%27s%20Who%20in%20the%20Moon Who's Who in the Moon] (1938), F. W. Opelt "was born in Rochlitz (Bavaria), became a successful financier in Saxony, and was private financial advisor to the State; he died in Dresden." In addition to assisting, along with his son, [/Julius%20Schmidt Julius Schmidt] in editing [/Lohrmann Lohrmann]'s Mondkarte (Leipzig, 1878), "he also translated into German, with notes and additions, Francoeur’s Traité élémentaire de Mécanique." Moritz Opelt was separately the author of a rare lunar observer's handbook, Der Mond: Populäre Darstellung der Verhältuisse und Ercheinungen welche von diesem Weltkörper bekaunt sind (1879).
- It appears that F. W. Opelt was a friend of Lohrmann who helped him with the mathematical reduction to selenographic longitude and latitude of his micrometrical measurements of the positions of about 50 lunar craters and peaks using the methods of [/Encke Encke]. He also supervised the preparation of engravings from Lohrmann's drawings after Lohrmann's death. Five of the measurements were apparently repeated by the elder Opelt's son.
- As noticed by Danny Caes, the IAU's [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] has a footnote on page 107 stating that [/Krieger Krieger] proposed the name [/Keeler Keeler] (now used for a farside crater) for this feature.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- Opelt, O. M. 1879. Der Mond -- book with 40 cm map, and skeleton map with names and heights
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