The week of August 10 takes us from Day 28 to Day 4. This week we will highlight the moon crater Schrodinger, visible on Thursday night close to the terminator.
Schrödinger is a large impact moon crater of the form traditionally called a walled plain and is named after Erwin Schrodinger, an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed results in quantum theory. This class of formation is known as a peak ring basin, which has a single interior topographic ring or a discontinuous ring of peaks with no central peak. It dates to the Early Imbrian period. This crater is located near the south lunar pole on the far side of the Moon, and can only be viewed from orbit.
OF ADDITIONAL INTEREST IN SPACE
On Tuesday, Mercury is 2° south of the Moon.
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It is highly recommended that you get a copy of Sky and Telescope’s Field Map of the Moon, the very finest Moon map available for use at the telescope. It is available for $10.95 at www.skyandtelescope.com and on Amazon. All features mentioned in this blog will be keyed to the grid on the Field Map and will look like this: Plato: [NW/D9]
Credits:
Courtesy of Gray Photography of Corpus Christi, Texas
Lunar photos: NASA / USGS / BMDO / LROC / ASU / DLR / LOLA / Moon Globe. Used by permission
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