Steinheil (crater)

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Steinheil is after the physicist, astronomer and entrepreneur Carl August von Steinheil named lunar craters. Steinheil is located on the southeastern edge of the moon, and together with a Watt double crater. Good observing conditions arise from the peripheral location 18 days after new moon. The crater is from the Nectarischen time ago from 3.92 to 3.85 billion years.

Steinheil and Watt are in uneven highlands on the southeastern edge of the moon, southeast of the large crater Janssen level, ie with line of sight to the moon at the bottom right but when observed through most telescopes the top left. The crater Watt, who a little further south-southeast ( ' behind ') is located directly adjacent to and is covered in the northwestern part of Steinheil, has almost the same size. The crater pair is therefore very striking.

Although Steinheil looks through its marginal position from distorted perspective, but is circular. The crater has a flat bottom; its surface is marked by a series of smaller impacts.