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Schlesinger

Lat: 47.4°N, Long: 138.6°W, Diam: 97 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) pre-Nectarian

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Schlesinger

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- Frank Schlesinger (May 11, 1871 – July 10, 1943) was an American astronomer. He worked at Yerkes Observatory and pioneered the use of photographic methods to determine stellar parallaxes. He made major contributions to astrometry. He compiled and published the Yale Bright Star Catalogue.
- Schlesinger B (51° North/ 135° West) was called Banachiewicz on the lightblue colored farside map in Patrick Moore's Atlas of the Universe (1983).
- It's interesting to find out if Schlesinger's Elliptical Halo (mentioned on page 227 in M.G.J.Minnaert's Light and Color in the Outdoors) was discovered by the American astronomer Frank Schlesinger.

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