Talbot
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Talbot
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Lat: 2.51°S, Long: 85.29°E, Diam: 12.36 km, Depth: 0.3 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2049 Rükl: 49] |
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Left: LROC image WAC No. M119292605ME. Talbot is at centre of image.
Midddle: LO-IV-009M This is an area that is poorly represented in any of the [/Lunar%20Orbiter Lunar Orbiter] images that are readily available on-line. The IAU-named features visible in this rectified version of a photo taken with the medium resolution camera are: [/Haldane Haldane], [/Talbot Talbot], [/Runge Runge], and [/Warner Warner].
Right: (Clementine Greyscale Basemap) Mercator projection dynamically created by USGS lunar Web Map Service.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- In Apollo 16's orbital ITEK-panoramic frame AS16-P-4361, the location of Talbot is very near the centre of that frame (the crater with dark floor and bright rim).
- Frames AS16-P-5108 and 5113 show oblique southward looks at Talbot (captured near the left margins of both frames).
- Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 81B2) LTO map
Description
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Talbot
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Pike, 1976: 0.3 km
Nomenclature
William Henry Fox; British photographer, physicist, archaeologist (1800-1877).
- This name appears on LTO-81B2. It does not appear to replace any previous IAU-approved designation. Although it appears in the cumulative list of approved names printed in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB], when and how it came to be approved is not entirely clear from the IAU record. - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
H.F.Talbot in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- In Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and related electromagnetic phenomena (1984) :
- GEL8-R2: Remarks upon an Optical Phenomenon, seen in Switzerland (H.F.Talbot, Philosophical Magazine, 1833). GEL8: Low-Sun Landscape Fluorescence.
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