page_title: Hipparchus (lunar crater)
section_title: Satellite craters
hierarchical_section_title: Hipparchus (lunar crater) / Satellite craters
caption_attribution_description: Photographischer Mond-Atlas vornehmlich auf Grund von focalen Negativen der Lick-Sternwarte im Massstabe eines Monddurchmessers von 10 Fuss ausgeführt von Professor Ladislaus Weinek. Heft II. Tafel 33
context_page_description: Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar impact crater. It was named after the Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician Hipparchus. It is located to the southeast of Sinus Medii, near the center of the visible Moon. To the south is the prominent crater Albategnius, and to the southwest lies Ptolemaeus, a feature of comparable dimensions to Hipparchus. Horrocks lies entirely within the northeast rim of the crater. Halley is attached to the south rim, and Hind lies to the southeast. To the north-northeast is the bowl-shaped Pickering, and the flooded Saunder is located off the northeast rim. High-resolution images of Hipparchus were obtained by Lunar Orbiter 5 in 1967.
context_section_description: By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hipparchus.
caption: Hipparchus and its surrounding satellite craters in Weinek's Lunar Atlas (1898); North is faced downward
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