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Lunar #61: Mösting A

In Wood's list (2004a and 2012a) this is labelled as "simple crater close to center of lunar near side". His notes (Hardwick 2013a) are a little confused. From the large crater Ptolemaeus (154 km in diameter), Herschel is a well-formed 41 km crater just to its North. Northwest of this follows the larger (75 km) and less clear Flammarion. Mösting proper is smallish at 27 km diameter and again farther northwest. The object here is Mösting A with 12 km diameter and on the western slopes of Flammarion. The centre of the lunar near side would be at longitude and latitude 0°, Mösting A is reasonably close at −5.2°,−3.2°. Note the rille Rima Flammarion that cuts from west of Mösting A across into the nothern part of crater Flammarion.

Image:

1. The area on 2023-02-28, stacked from 700 video frames taken with a Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector of D = 200 mm and f = 3500 mm and Canon EOS 600Dα camera. Wavelet sharpening. The phase was +64%.
2. Dto., annotated and with scale.