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Lunar #76: W. Bond

The crater W. Bond is not so easy to recognise. Its walls are not complete, but open to Mare Frigoris in the South. But most of all it seems to be a square rather than a circle. The size is 159 km. Note the small craters within: W. Bond B (15 km) to the East, C (7.5 km) just northeast of B, and D south of the centre and only 7 km in diameter. There appears to be a rima running from north of centre toward C.

Images:

1. The area imaged 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. with annotation and scale.