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We add about 47 new named features to the list of observable features on this lunation day. The Moon is getting closer to full and appears tonight to be almost round with a slightly misshapen western limb.
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Johann Schröter, Selenotopographische Fragmente (Göttingen, 1791), § 246, page 422 and plate XXXII, figure 1.
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The craters designated “Hevelius F,” “Hevelius G,” and “Hevelius H” were not adopted by the IAU in 1932, and are therefore not listed in Named Lunar Formations, NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature (NASA Reference Publication 1097), or the IAU on-line nomenclature list, as of 2019. The first appearance of these satellite crater designations appears to have been by Walter Goodacre on Section XIX of his 1910 map, as shown in Figure 18.23. Goodacre labeled “Hevelius G” for a crater outside the main crater, while later publications designate a cone crater inside Hevelius. These three unofficial named craters are labeled in images 161-2, and 169-1 in the Atlas and Gazetteer of the Near Side of the Moon (SP-241), are depicted and labeled on the paper edition of LAC–56 (I-491), and Antonín Rükl included them on map 28 in his Atlas of the Moon.
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Thomas Elger, The Moon, (London, 1895), 82, 83.
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Eddington’s photographs of the solar eclipse were non-conclusive due to poor weather at his location near Africa. The team led by the Irish-born British astronomer Andrew Claude de la Cherois [a.k.a. A. C. D. Crommelin (1865–1939)] at Sobral, Brazil was able to take usable photographs of the almost 7 minutes of totality at the total solar eclipse with the Sun in front of the Hyades Star Cluster in Taurus.
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Edmund Neison, The Moon (1876), 267.
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Thomas Elger, The Moon (1895), 90.
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Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. 2, translated by R. D. Hicks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, Loeb Classical Library number 185, 1995), 343.
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Ibid., 391.
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Garfinkle, R.A. (2020). Crater-Hopping: Observing the Moon on Day 13. In: Luna Cognita. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1664-1_18
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