Some nearside lunar craters
and the astronomers they were named for.

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Portraits
copernicus portrait
galileo portrait
kepler portrait
ptolemy portrait
brahe portrait
Astronomers
Nicholas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Claudius Ptolemy
Tycho Brahe
Craters
Coördinates
9.7°N
20.1°W
10.5°N
62.7°W
8.1°N
38.0°W
9.3°S
1.9°W
43.4°S
11.1°W

Click on the name of a crater above or its location below to elicit a closer view and more info.

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Copernicus lunar crater Galileaei lunar crater Kepler lunar crater Ptolemy lunar crater Tycho lunar crater