König

Lat: 24.23°S, Long: 24.74°W, Diam: 22.95 km, Depth: 2.44 km, Rükl: 53

LO-IV-125H The 3-km circular crater in the lower right is König A.

Images

Konig was also captured by Apollo 16's south looking mapping/metric Fairchild camera, such as in Frame AS16-M-2495, in which Konig is noticeable very near the central part of the curved horizon.
Research: Danny Caes.

IAU page: König
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Arthur, 1974: 2.44 km
- Westfall, 2000: 2.44 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.44 km
From the shadows in LO-IV-125H, König is up to about 2400 m deep. - Jim Mosher
König is on the ALPO list of banded craters

Named for Rudolf König (1865-1927), an Austrian mathematician, astronomer. In lunar studies, König is noted for completing and publishing the second set of Johann Krieger's Atlas, as well as for an very excellent 17-inch map of the Moon's full disk, apparently of his own construction.
Named by Karl Müller in Named Lunar Formations in 1935 (Whitaker, p 229).
A hill west-northwest of Konig seems to have been called Phi (see Chart 80 in the Times Atlas of the Moon). Was this Konig Phi or Hippalus Phi?

Hill, Harold. 1991. A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings., pages 110, 111.
Rheden, J. 1927. Anzeige des Todes von Rudolf König. Astronomische Nachrichten, volume 229, p. 335.