Krieger
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Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth
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Lat: 29.01°N, Long: 45.6°W, Diam: 23.14 km, Depth: 0.95 km,[/R%C3%BCkl%2019 Rükl: 19] |
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[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Images Images]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Maps Maps]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Description Description]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Krieger - with Van Biesbroeck, Rocco, and Ruth-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine The crater on the south rim of Krieger is separately named ([/Van%20Biesbroeck Van Biesbroeck]), while the larger of the two just outside the east rim is [/Rocco Rocco]. The circular crater to the northwest of Krieger is [/Wollaston Wollaston]. [/Rima%20Krieger Rima Krieger] is barely visible snaking out Krieger's west rim, while the much more prominent rille to the west is part of [/Rimae%20Aristarchus Rimae Aristarchus].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- Wes Higgins image
- AS15-88-12004 is one of Apollo 15's orbital Hasselblads of Krieger' (left) and [/Prinz Prinz] (right of centre). The colored streaks are internal reflections in the Hasselblad camera and on the inside of one of CM Endeavours small windows. Note the reflection of the hand of the photographing astronaut! Research: Danny Caes.
- AS15-90-12273 is a B-and-W close up of Krieger.
- AS15-90-12305 . This B-and-W close up of Krieger, photographed through a small window of Apollo 15's CM Endeavour, is included in the book FULL MOON by Michael Light and Andrew Chaikin (Plate 28). Research: Danny Caes.
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 39A1) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map Topophotomap
Description
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Krieger
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Pike, 1976: 0.95 km
- Westfall, 2000: 0.95 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 1.1 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 1.09 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902), a draftsman and selenographer. At an early age he gained an interest in astronomy. He had been inspired by the director of the Cologne Observatory to make the study and observation of the Moon his life's work. With the proceeds from sale of his late father’s small brewery, Krieger built a private observatory, later moved to Trieste, with a 10-1/2 in refractor. Krieger decided to create a definitive map of the Moon. For this purpose he obtained a series of low-resolution negatives of the lunar surface that had been taken at the Lick and Paris observatories. He enlarged these images and used them to provide positional accuracy for his subsequent drawings. His illustrations of the Moon were made in charcoal, graphite pencil, and ink, and were considered superior to any previously produced lunar maps in their accuracy and level of detail, and continue to be considered works of art. He lived long enough to see his first 28 plates published as volume 1 of his Mond Atlas in 1898. About 10 years following his untimely death, his remaining drawings and sketches were published, at the suggestion of Krieger's friend Professor [/Seeliger Seeliger], in a second set compiled and edited by the Austrian selenographer [/K%C3%B6nig Rudolf König]. This "New Atlas" (appearing in 1912) included a volume of descriptive text based on Krieger's observations. Writing in 1961, Sky and Telescope editor-in-chief Ashbrook suggested that the lunar drawings produced by this Bavarian inn-keeper’s son “were of an excellence that remains perhaps unmatched to this day.” Something very similar to Krieger’s technique was used for producing the first NASA [/LAC LAC] charts in the early 1960’s, where the final shaded relief background was obtained by supplementing the best available photographs with visual observations of fine details using the U.S. Naval Observatory’s large reflector in Flagstaff. It would appear that subsequent changes in technology have finally rendered this powerful technique obsolete, for it is unlikely that a human at the eyepiece can any longer observe detail finer than that which can be directly recorded in a carefully stacked and averaged sequence of photographs; particularly if the deleterious effects of seeing have been compensated for, in the original photographs, using the methods of adaptive optics.
- Krieger was not included as a named feature in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] (1913), but was slipped into the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (1935) as Catalog Number 1737a. The name is attributed there to König with a note suggesting it may have been Schmidt's [/Wollaston Wollaston] B.
- Examples of Krieger's drawings from the 1898 Atlas can be found on-line courtesy of Henk Bril.
- The following information about the format and contents of the two issues of Krieger's Atlas was provided by astronomical historian [/Robert%20Garfinkle Robert Garfinkle]:
- As indicated above, the 1898 issue of the Atlas (a single volume) ends at Plate ("Tafel" in German) 28.
- The 1912 issue, prepared by König, consists of two new volumes:
- One labeled "Text"
- One labeled "Atlas" beginning with Plate 29. At the end of this volume is the excellent nearside overview/index chart to both issues, drawn by König (who Krieger presumably never met). Although it is reproduced on Henk Bril's site, the König map does not appear in the 1898 issue.
- [/Names%20of%20J.N.Krieger%20and%20R.Konig List] of new lunar nomenclature introduced by Krieger and König.
LPOD Articles
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Bibliography
- Ashbrook, Joseph. 1961. "J. N. Krieger: The Moon half-won,” Sky and Telescope (Feb. issue), p. 92. (reprinted in [/Ashbrook%2C%201984 The Astronomial Scrapbook])
- Krieger, Johann Nepomuk. 1898. Mond-Atlas: entworfen nach den Beobachtungen an der Pia-Sternwarte in Triest. Triest: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers.
- Krieger, Johann Nepomuk, and Rudolf König. 1912. Mond-Atlas. Wien: E.H. Mayer.
- Krieger, Johann Nepomuk. 2010. Mond-Atlas. Bremen: Europ. Hochschulverl. (modern reprint of the 1898 publication, partially readable on Google Books)
- Hill, Harold. 1991. [/Hill%2C%201991 A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], page 77 (small drawing of Krieger and surrounds).
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