Sky and Telescope April 2004 - Lunar 100 List by Charles Wood

Followed by other Moon images in Rükl order
Taken with Meade 2080 SCT, Barlow, and ToUcam

Moon - Lunar 01

Copernicus - Lunar 05
Archetypal Large complex crater

Rükl 31

Tycho - Lunar 06
Large rayed crater with impact melts

Rükl 64: Street, Pictet

Clavius - Lunar 09
Lack's basin features in spite of size (crescent of inside craters)

Rükl 72: Blancanus, Rutherford, Porter, Gruemberger Cysatus

Aristarchus - Lunar 11
Very bright crater with dark bands on its walls

Rükl 18: Montes Agricola, Raman, Vallis Schroteri, Freud,
Mons Herodotus, Dorsum Niggli, Herodotus, Aristarchus, Vaisala, Rupes Toscanelli

Gassendi - Lunar 13
Floor fractured crater

Rükl 52

Gassendi - Lunar 13

Rükl 52

Sinus Iridum - Lunar 14
Very large crater with missing rim

Rükl 10: Bianchini

Straight Wall - Lunar 15
Best example of a lunar fault

Rükl 54: Birt, Rupes Recta, Thebit, Purbach

Schroter's Valley - Lunar 17
Giant sinuous rille
(Cobra is 160 km long, 10 km wide at head (above crater), 0.5 km at narrowest)

Rükl 18

Aristarchus Plateau - Lunar 22
Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics

Rükl 18

Archimedes - Lunar 27
Large crater lacking central peak

Rükl 22: Feuillee, Beer, Bancroft, Montes Archimedes, Spurr

Hipparchus - Lunar 28
Subject of the first drawing of a single crater

Rükl 45: Muller, Halley, Horrocks, Pickering, Hind, Saunder

Schiller - Lunar 30
Possible oblique impact

Rükl 71: Noggerath, Schiller, Bayer

Maurolycus - Lunar 45 (partial)
Region of saturation cratering

Rükl 66: Stofler, Faraday

Mons Gruithuisen Gamma & Delta - Lunar 49
Volcano domes formed with viscous lava (tiny crater on Gamma is 900 meters)

Rükl 9: Mons Gruithuisen Gamma, Mons Gruithuisen Delta

Hippalus Rilles - Lunar 54
Rilles concentric to Humorium basin

Rükl 52: Doppelmayer, Puiseax, Loewy, Prom Kelvin, Hippalus Rükl 62: Lee, Vitello, Rimae Hippalus

Hippalus Rilles - Lunar 54

Rükl 53: Loewy, Rupes Kelvin, Hippalus, Rimae Hippalus, Campanus, Konig

Schiller Basin - Lunar 59
Badly degraded overlooked basin

Rükl 71:

Ptolemaeus B - Lunar 75
Saucerlike depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus

Rükl 44: Herschel, Ammonius, Muller, Klein

Hesodius A - Lunar 81
Concentric crater

Rükl 54: Hesiodus Pitatus Cichus Weiss

Plato Craterlets - Lunar - 83
Crater pits at limits of detection

Rükl 3: Plato

Plato Craterlets - Lunar 83

Rükl 3: Plato

Pitatus - Lunar 84
Crater with concentric rilles

Rükl 54: Hesiodus Cichus Weiss

Gylden Valley - 92 Lunar (Partial)
Part of the Imbrium radial structure
(Note "Machine Gun" crater row upper right)

Rükl 44: Herschel, Ammonius, Muller, Klein

End of Lunar 100

Assorted Moon images in Rükl order

Rükl 2: Biachini

Harpalus, Foucault, Bouguer, Maupertuis

Rükl 2: Herschel

Horrebow

Rükl 3: Fontenelle

Philolaus Birmingham, Anaxagoras, Epigenes

Rükl 9: Mairan

Louville

Rükl 10: Promontorium Heraclides

Mons Gruithuisen Delta & Gamma

Rükl 19: Delisle

Mons Delisle Diophantus Artsimovich Federoff 9 Dorsum Bucher

Rükl 21: Eratosthenes

Montes Apenninus, Wallace

Rükl 29: Marius

Marius

Rükl 30: Encke

Kunowsky

Rükl 30:Kepler

Rükl 41: Montes Riphaeus

Herigonius Norman Euclides

Rükl 43: Lalande

Palisa

Rükl 51: Mersinius

Cavendish, Mersinius, Rima Mersinius, de Gasparis, Rima de Gasparis, Liebig

Rükl 52: Agatharchides

Lubiniezky

Rükl 53:

Darney, Lubiniezky

Rükl 61:

Rükl 62:

Schickard

Rükl 62:

Clausius, Vitello

Rükl 64: Wilhelm

Legalla Montanari Brown Heinsius

Rükl 64: Wurzelbauer

Gauricus Ball Hell Heinsius

Rükl 65: Walter

Lexell, Nonius

Rükl 70: Phocylides

Rükl 72: Longomontanus

Rost

Rükl 72: Maginus

Street

Rükl 72: Scheiner

Rükl 73: Maginus

Proctor, Deluc

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