Aristoteles A. A light-surrounded crater in the Mare Frigoris, N.E. of
Aristoteles.
Aratus. A very conspicuously brilliant crater in the Apennines, with a
smaller light-surrounded crater W. of it.
Sulpicius Gallus. A light spot near.
Manilius. Surrounded by a light halo and streaks.
Taquet. Has a prominent nimbus, and indications of very delicate streaks.
Plinius A. Is surrounded by a well-marked halo.
Posidonius gamma. Among the hills E. of this formation a light spot
resembling Linne, according to Schmidt. He first saw it in 1867, when it
had a delicate black spot in the centre. Dr. Vogel observed and drew it
in 1871 with the great refractor at Bothkamp. These observations were
confirmed by Schmidt in 1875 with the 14-feet refractor at Berlin.
Littrow. A very bright light-spot with streaks, on the site of a little
crater and well-known cleft E. of this ring-plain.
Romer. A light-surrounded mountain on the E.
Macrobius. Two light-surrounded craters on the E. of this formation, the
more northerly being the brighter.
Cleomedes A. (On the floor.) Surrounded by a nimbus and rays. Large
crater, A, on the E. has also a nimbus and rays.
Agrippa. Exhibits faint rays.
Godin. Exhibits faint rays.
Proclus. A well-known ray-centre, some of the rays prominent on part of
the Mare Crisium.
Taruntius. Has a very faint nimbus, with rays, on a dark surface.
Dionysius. A brilliant crater with a prominent, bright, excentrically
placed nimbus on a dark surface, on which distinct rays are displayed.
Hypatia B. A very small bright crater on a dark surface: surrounded by a
faint nimbus.
Apollonius. Among the hills S. of this, there is a small bright streak
system.
Eimmart. There is a large white spot N.W. of this.
Geminus is associated with a system of very delicate rays.
Menelaus. A brilliant object. It is traversed by a long ray from Tycho.
SECOND QUADRANT.
Anaxagoras. The centre of an important ray-system.
Timocharis is surrounded by a pale irregular nimbus and faint rays, most
prominently developed on the W. side of the formation.
Copernicus. Next to Tycho, the most extended ray-centre on the visible
surface. Some distance on the E., in E. long. 25 deg., N. lat. 11 deg.,
lies a very small but conspicuous system, and in E. long. 22 deg., N.
lat. 8 deg. a bright light spot among little hills.
Gambart A. A bright crater with large nimbus and rays.
Landsberg A. A light-surrounded c
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