Oppolzer (crater)

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Oppolzer 's the rest of a lunar crater on the southern edge of sine Medii, at the prime meridian of the moon. The impact crater was named in 1935 by the IAU by the Austrian astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer.

The crater has a mean diameter of 40 km. Its location in the central area of the erdzugewandten side of the moon has the selenographic coordinates 1 ° 30 ' S / 0 ° 30 ' W. is located on its south-eastern crater rim of the crater Reaumur and the West southwest named after Camille Flammarion, lavaüberflutete Wall level Flammarion.

The 110 km long lunar groove Rima Oppolzer cuts through the southern part of the crater floor.