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
MANNERS.--A brilliant little ring-plain, 11 miles in diameter, on the
S.E. side of the Mare Tranquilitatis. There appears to be no detail
whatever in connection with its wall. It has a distinct central mountain.
About three diameters distant on the S.W. there is a bright crater,
omitted by Madler and Neison.
ARAGO.--A much larger formation, 18 miles in diameter, N. of the last,
with a small crater on its N. border, and exhibiting two or three spurs
from the wall on the opposite side. The inner slopes are terraced, and
there is a small central mountain. There are two curious circular
protuberances on the Mare E. of Arago, which are well seen when the W.
longitude of the morning terminator is about 19 deg., and a long cleft,
passing about midway between them, and extending from the foot of the E.
wall to a small crater on the edge of the Mare near Sosigenes. Another
cleft, also terminating at this crater, runs towards Arago and the more
northerly of the protuberances.
CAUCHY.--A bright little crater, not more than 7 or 8 miles in diameter,
on the W. side of the Mare Tranquilitatis, N.E. of Taruntius. It has a
peak on its W. rim considerably loftier than the rest of the wall, which
is visible as a brilliant spot at sunrise long before the rest of the
rampart is illuminated. On the S. there are two bright longitudinal
ridges ranging from N.E. to S.W. These stand in the position where Neison
draws two straight clefts. The Cauchy cleft, however, lies N. of these,
and terminates, as shown by Schmidt, among the mountains N.E. of
Taruntius. I have seen it thus on many occasions, and it is so
represented in a drawing by M.E. Stuvaert (_Dessins de la Lune_). There
is a number of minute craters and mounds standing on the S. side of this
cleft, and many others in the vicinity.
JANSEN.--Owing to its comparatively low border, this is not a very
conspicuous object. It is chiefly remarkable for the curious arrangement
of the mountains and ridges on the S. and W. of it. There is a bright
little crater on the S. side of the floor, and many noteworthy objects of
the same class in the neighbourhood. The mountain arm running S., and
ultimately bending E., forms a large incomplete hook-shaped formation
terminating at a ring-plain, Jansen B. The ridges in the Mare
Tranquilitatis between Jansen B. and the region E. of Maskelyne display
under a low sun foldings and wrinklings of a very extraordinary kind.
MACLEAR.--A conspicuous ring-plain about 16 miles in diameter. The dark
floor includes, according to Madler, a delicate central hill which
Schmidt does not show. Neison, however, saw a faint greyish mark, and an
undoubted peak has been subsequently recorded. I have not succeeded in
seeing any detail within the border, which in shape resembles a triangle
with curved sides.
ROSS.--A somewhat larger ring-plain of irregular form, on the N.W. of the
last. There are gaps on the bright S.W. border and a crater on the S.E.
wall. The central mountain is an easy feature.
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