Espin (crater)

Espin
Oblique Apollo 16 mapping camera image (facing northwest)
Coordinates28°06′N 109°06′E / 28.1°N 109.1°E / 28.1; 109.1
Diameter75 km
DepthUnknown
Colongitude251° at sunrise
EponymThomas H. E. C. Espin
Oblique Apollo 14 Hasselblad camera image (facing east)

Espin is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the northeastern limb. It lies to the west-southwest of the larger crater Seyfert, and northwest of Deutsch.

This is a worn formation with heavy damage along the northern rim. Several small craters lie along the northern edge, and a crater lies across the southern rim. The northern part of the interior floor is somewhat irregular, but it is more level to the south. A ray from the crater Giordano Bruno to the north-northwest reaches the western interior of Espin.

It is named after Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin, an amateur astronomer[1] who was a vicar of Tow Law.[2]

  1. ^ "A Field Guide to the English Clergy' Butler-Gallie, F p47: London, Oneworld Publications, 2018 ISBN 9781786074416
  2. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p406: London; OUP; 1929