The moon : $b a full description and map of its principal physical featuresElger, Thomas Gwyn
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The moon : $b a full description and map of its principal physical features
Elger, Thomas Gwyn
Moon
MAGINUS.--An immense partially ruined enclosure, at least 100 miles from
side to side, on the S.W. of Tycho, from which it is separated by a
region covered with a confused mass of ring-plains and craters. On almost
every part of its broken border stand large ring-plains, many of which,
if they were isolated, or situated in a less disturbed region, would rank
as objects of importance; but among such a multitude of features they
pass unnoticed. The largest of them occupies no inconsiderable part of
the S.E. wall, and is quite 30 miles in diameter, its own border being
also much broken by depressions, as, indeed, are those of almost all the
six or more large ring-plains which define the N. limits of Maginus. The
loftiest portion of what remains of a true border rises at one place to
more than 14,000 feet. On the floor, which is traversed by some of the
Tycho rays, there is a mountain group associated with a crater, nearly
central, and several large rings on the N. side. Though the formation is
very difficult to detect under a high sun, Madler's dictum that "the full
moon knows no Maginus" is not strictly true.
STREET.--A walled-plain between Tycho and Maginus, about 28 miles in
diameter, with a border of moderate height, broken by depressions on the
N. There are some small craters and ridges within; but the surrounding
region, with its almost endless variety of abnormally shaped formations,
is far more worthy of the observer's attention.
DELUC.--The largest and most prominent member of a curious group of ring-
plains on the S.W. of Maginus. It is about 28 miles in diameter, and is
encircled by a wall some 7000 feet above the interior, which includes a
crater. A large ring with a central mountain encroaches on the N. wall,
and a smaller object of the same class on the S. wall.
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