Rükl 47

Rükl Zone 47 - CAPELLA

Neighboring maps on the Rükl Nearside Map:

35	36	37
46	47	48
57	58	59

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 L (note: according to orbiting Apollo astronauts this tiny crater shows rusty colored bands and a brownish hue on its floor) (Beaumont L is the rather dark craterlet near the lower left corner of Chart 47).
• Beaumont's Twenty Nine East Ridge (an unofficial name from D.Caes for the officially unnamed ridge at 29° East, north of Beaumont, see Chart 58, and southeast of Theophilus/ southwest of 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 Eta (this elongated hill is depicted near the lower right corner of Chart 47) (for Bohnenberger see Chart 58).
• Capella (Van Langren's Vlacci, J.Hewelcke's Mons Strobilus) (?) (E.A.Whitaker seems to be uncertain about that one).
• Censorinus (a very bright spot during Full Moon!) (one of the signposts during observations of lunar eclipses) (J.Hewelcke's Prom. Heracleum).
• Censorinus N (Van Langren's Golii, Riccioli's Beda).
• Colchis (regio) (J.Hewelcke's disallowed name for the region east of Sinus Asperitatis).
• Daguerre (the floor of this crater contains a strange looking ray-craterlet, once photographed from orbit by CMP Ken Mattingly aboard Apollo 16's CSM Casper, this during the surface excursions of CDR John Young and LMP Charles Duke at the Descartes-Dollond region).
• Dionysius Exiguus (Riccioli's disallowed name for Censorinus C).
• Fretum Ponticum (J.Hewelcke's disallowed name for the northern part of Mare Nectaris).
• Gaudibert
• Isidorus (Van Langren's Laurini, J.Hewelcke's Mons Strobilus).
• Leakey (this is a possible Concentric Crater).
• Mädler (Van Langren's Phorylidi, J.Hewelcke's Prom. Freti Pontici).
• Magni (Van Langren's disallowed name for Capella B) (?) (E.A.Whitaker seems to be uncertain about that one).
• Mare Nectaris (Van Langren's Sinus Batavicus, J.Hewelcke's Sinus Extremus Ponti) (the northern part of it, occupying the section at the bottom of Chart 47, see Chart 58 for wiki-link).
• Mare Tranquillitatis (Van Langren's Mare Belgicum, J.Hewelcke's Pontus Euxinus) (the most southern part of it, occupying the upper left section of Chart 47).
• Mons Herculis (J.Hewelcke's disallowed name for the nimbi of Maskelyne A and Censorinus A).
• Montes Pyrenaeus (near the lower right corner of Chart 47) (J.Hewelcke's Montes Caucasus).
• Rimae Gutenberg
• Ruin Basin (an informal NASA related name for the odd 8-shaped or peanut shaped couple of subdued craters west-southwest of Censorinus).
• Ruin Basin's western hill (a nickname from D.Caes for the officially unnamed hill west of both NASA's Ruin Basin and Censorinus J).
• Sidewinder Rille (an informal NASA related name for the rille north-northwest of Censorinus K).
• Sinus Asperitatis (Van Langren's Sinus Batavicus, J.Hewelcke's Sinus Atheniensis).
• Snellii (Van Langren's disallowed name for Isidorus F) (?) (E.A.Whitaker seems to be uncertain about that one).
• SP Crater (an informal NASA related name for Censorinus A, the inconspicuous crater just east of the bright Censorinus itself).
• Terra Mannae (Riccioli's discontinued name for the region between Mare Nectaris and Mare Fecunditatis).
• Terra Temperantiae (Van Langren's disallowed name for the region between Mare Nectaris and Mare Fecunditatis).
• Torricelli (Van Langren's Wassenarii).
• Torricelli B (north-northeast of Torricelli itself, Torricelli B is a very mysterious TLP site because of the strange bluish white appearance of this crater on January the 29th, 1983) (see Additional Information below).
• Torricelli B hill (a nickname from D.Caes for the officially unnamed hill southwest of Torricelli B).
• Vallis Capella
• Vernet (a disallowed name from H.P.Wilkins for Gutenberg G).
• Wendelini (Van Langren's disallowed name for Maskelyne A).

Lettered Crater Locations

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Full zone with lettered craters

Lettered craters by quadrants

(the dashed white lines are the centerlines of the Rükl zones)
 

North West	North East
South West	South East

Additional Information

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

The strange behaviour of Torricelli B (January the 29th, 1983)

This very interesting article, by Marie C. Cook, appeared in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 110, 3, 2000 (pages 117-122).
  It is not known if other strange appearances of Torricelli B have been reported in astronomical journals, or perhaps in moon-related websites. A search is needed.
 - DannyCaes Oct 4, 2015
  Thanks Antoine van der Jeugt for photocopies of this article! (A.v.d.Jeugt: Flemish connoisseur and dedicated observer of both the moon and Mars).

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