List of craters on the Moon, C-F
This is a subset of the list of craters on the Moon. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.
| Craters on the Moon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-B | C-F | G-K | L-N | O-S | T-Z |
Table of contents |
C
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| C. Herschel | 13 km | Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) |
| C. Mayer | 38 km | Christian Mayer (1719–1783) |
| Cabannes | 80 km | Jean Cabannes (1885–1959) |
| Cabeus | 98 km | Niccolo Cabeo (1586–1650) |
| Cailleux | 50 km | Andre Cailleux (1907–1986) |
| Cajal | 9 km | Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) |
| Cajori | 70 km | Florian Cajori (1859–1930) |
| Calippus | 32 km | Calippus of Cyzicus (circa 330 B.C.) |
| Cameron | 10 km | Robert Curry Cameron (1925–1972) |
| Campanus | 48 km | Giovanni Campano (circa 1200) |
| Campbell | 219 km | Leon Campbell (1881–1951) |
| William Wallace Campbell (1862–1938) | ||
| Cannizzaro | 56 km | Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910) |
| Cannon | 56 km | Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941) |
| Cantor | 0 km | Georg Cantor (1845–1918) |
| Moritz Cantor (1829–1920) | ||
| Capella | 90 km | Martianus Capella (circa 400 A.D.) |
| Capuanus | 59 km | Francesco Capuano Di Manfredonia (circa 1400) |
| Cardanus | 49 km | Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576) |
| Carlini | 10 km | Francesco Carlini (1783–1862) |
| Carlos | 4 km | (Spanish male name) |
| Carmichael | 20 km | Leonard Carmichael (1898–1973) |
| Carnot | 126 km | Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) |
| Carol | 117 km | (Latin female name) |
| Carpenter | 59 km | James Carpenter (1840–1899) |
| Edwin Francis Carpenter (1898–1963) | ||
| Carrel | 15 km | Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) |
| Carrillo | 16 km | Flores Nabor Carrillo (1911–1967) |
| Carrington | 30 km | Richard Christopher Carrington (1826–1875) |
| Cartan | 15 km | Élie J. Cartan (1869–1951) |
| Carver | 59 km | George Washington Carver (circa 1864–1943) |
| Casatus | 108 km | Paolo Casati (1617–1707) |
| Cassegrain | 55 km | Giovanni Cassegrain (1625–1712) |
| Cassini | 56 km | Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) |
| Jacques J. Cassini (1677–1756) | ||
| Catalán | 25 km | Miguel Ángel Catalán (1894–1957) |
| Catharina | 104 km | Saint Catherine of Alexandria (unknown-circa 307) |
| Cauchy | 12 km | Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) |
| Cavalerius | 56 km | Buonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) |
| Cavendish | 56 km | Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) |
| Caventou | 3 km | Joseph Bienaime Caventou (1795–1877) |
| Cayley | 14 km | Arthur Cayley (1821–1895) |
| Celsius | 36 km | Anders Celsius (1701–1744) |
| Censorinus | 3 km | Censorinus (flourished 238 A.D.) |
| Cepheus | 39 km | Cepheus (mythology) |
| Chacornac | 51 km | Jean Chacornac (1823–1873) |
| Chadwick | 30 km | Sir James Chadwick (1891–1974) |
| Chaffee | 49 km | Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967) |
| Challis | 55 km | James Challis (1803–1862) |
| Chalonge | 30 km | Daniel Chalonge (1895–1977) |
| Chamberlin | 58 km | Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928) |
| Champollion | 58 km | Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) |
| Chandler | 85 km | Seth Carlo Chandler (1846–1913) |
| Chang Heng | 43 km | Zhang Heng (78–139) |
| Chang-Ngo | 3 km | (Chinese female name) |
| Chant | 33 km | Clarence Augustus Chant (1865–1956) |
| Chaplygin | 137 km | Sergej Alekseevich Chaplygin (1869–1942) |
| Chapman | 71 km | Sydney Chapman (1888–1970) |
| Chappe | 59 km | Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1728–1769) |
| Chappell | 80 km | James F. Chappell (1891–1964) |
| Charles | 1 km | (French male name) |
| Charlier | 99 km | Carl Charlier (1862–1934) |
| Chaucer | 45 km | Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340–1400) |
| Chauvenet | 81 km | William Chauvenet (1820–1870) |
| Chebyshev | 178 km | Pafnuty L. Chebyshev (1821–1894) |
| Chernyshev | 58 km | Nikolaj G. Chernyshev (1906–1963) |
| Chevallier | 52 km | Temple Chevallier (1794–1873) |
| Ching-Te | 4 km | (Chinese male name) |
| Chladni | 13 km | Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827) |
| Chrétien | 88 km | Henri Chrétien (1870–1956) |
| Christel | 2 km | (German female name) |
| Cichus | 40 km | Franceso Degli Stabili Cichus (1257–1327) |
| Clairaut | 75 km | Alexis Claude Clairaut (1713–1765) |
| Clark | 49 km | Alvan Clark (1804–1887) |
| Alvan Graham Clark (1832–1897) | ||
| Clausius | 24 km | Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius (1822–1888) |
| Clavius | 245 km | Christopher Klau Clavius (1537–1612) |
| Cleomedes | 125 km | Cleomedes (unknown-circa 50 B.C.) |
| Cleostratus | 62 km | Cleostratus (unknown-circa 500 B.C.) |
| Clerke | 6 km | Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907) |
| Coblentz | 33 km | William Weber Coblentz (1873–1962) |
| Cockcroft | 93 km | John Douglas Cockcroft (1897–1967) |
| Collins | 2 km | Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930-) |
| Colombo | 76 km | Christopher Columbus (circa 1446–1506) |
| Compton | 182 km | Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962) |
| Karl Taylor Compton (1887–1954) | ||
| Comrie | 59 km | Leslie John Comrie (1893–1950) |
| Comstock | 72 km | George Cary Comstock (1855–1934) |
| Condon | 34 km | Edward Uhler Condon (1902–1974) |
| Condorcet | 74 km | Jean Antoine, Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) |
| Congreve | 57 km | Sir William Congreve (1772–1828) |
| Conon | 21 km | Conon of Samos (circa 260 B.C.) |
| Cook | 46 km | James Cook (1728–1779) |
| Cooper | 36 km | John C. Cooper (1887–1967) |
| Copernicus | 107 km | Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543) |
| Cori | 65 km | Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896–1957) |
| Coriolis | 78 km | Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843) |
| Couder | 21 km | Andre Couder (1897–1978) |
| Coulomb | 89 km | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) |
| Courtney | 1 km | (English masculine name) |
| Cremona | 85 km | Luigi Cremona (1830–1903) |
| Crile | 9 km | George Crile (1864–1943) |
| Crocco | 75 km | Gaetano Arturo Crocco (1877–1968) |
| Crommelin | 94 km | Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865–1939) |
| Crookes | 49 km | Sir William Crookes (1832–1919) |
| Crozier | 22 km | Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (1796–1848) |
| Crüger | 45 km | Peter Crüger (1580–1639) |
| Ctesibius | 36 km | Ctesibius (unknown-circa 100 B.C.) |
| Curie | 151 km | Pierre Curie (1859–1906) |
| Curtis | 2 km | Heber Doust Curtis (1859–1906) |
| Curtius | 95 km | Albert Curtz (1600–1671) |
| Cusanus | 63 km | Nikolaus Krebs Cusanus (1401–1464) |
| Cuvier | 75 km | Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) |
| Cyrano | 80 km | Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien (1615–1655) |
| Cyrillus | 98 km | Saint Cyril (unknown-444 A.D.) |
| Cysatus | 48 km | Jean-Baptiste Cysat (1588–1657) |
D
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| da Vinci | 37 km | Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) |
| Daedalus | 93 km | Daedalus |
| Dag | 0 km | (Scandinavian male name) |
| Daguerre | 46 km | Louis Daguerre (1789–1851) |
| Dale | 22 km | Henry Hallett Dale (1875–1968) |
| D'Alembert | 248 km | Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) |
| Dalton | 60 km | John Dalton (1766–1844) |
| Daly | 17 km | Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957) |
| Damoiseau | 36 km | Marie Charles Theodor De Damoiseau (1768–1846). |
| Daniell | 29 km | John Frederick Daniell (1790–1845) |
| Danjon | 71 km | André Danjon (1890–1967) |
| Dante | 54 km | Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) |
| Darney | 15 km | Maurice Darney (1882–1958) |
| D'Arrest | 30 km | Heinrich L. d'Arrest (1822–1875) |
| D'Arsonval | 28 km | Jacques Arsene d'Arsonval (1851–1940) |
| Darwin | 120 km | Charles Darwin (1809–1882) |
| Das | 38 km | Amil K. Das (1902–1961) |
| Daubrée | 14 km | Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée (1814–1896) |
| Davisson | 87 km | Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881–1958) |
| Davy | 34 km | Humphry Davy (1778–1829) |
| Dawes | 18 km | William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868) |
| Dawson | 45 km | Bernhard H. Dawson (1890–1960) |
| De Forest | 57 km | Lee de Forest (1873–1961) |
| de Gasparis | 30 km | Annibale de Gasparis (1819–1892) |
| de Gerlache | 32.4 km | Adrien de Gerlache (1866–1934) |
| De La Rue | 134 km | Warren de la Rue (1815–1889) |
| De Moraes | 53 km | Abrahão De Moraes (1916–1970) |
| De Morgan | 10 km | Augustus de Morgan (1806–1871) |
| De Roy | 43 km | Felix De Roy (1883–1942) |
| De Sitter | 64 km | Willem de Sitter (1872–1934) |
| De Vico | 20 km | Francesco de Vico (1805–1848) |
| De Vries | 59 km | Hugo de Vries (1848–1935) |
| Debes | 30 km | Ernest Debes (1840–1923) |
| Debus | 20 km | Kurt Heinrich Debus (1908–1983) |
| Debye | 142 km | Peter Debye (1884–1966) |
| Dechen | 12 km | Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen (1800–1889) |
| Delambre | 51 km | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822) |
| Delaunay | 46 km | Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816–1872) |
| Delia | 2 km | (Greek female name) |
| Delisle | 25 km | Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768) |
| Dellinger | 81 km | John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) |
| Delmotte | 32 km | Gabriel Delmotte (1876–1950) |
| Delporte | 45 km | Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882–1955) |
| Deluc | 46 km | Jean-André Deluc (1727–1817) |
| Dembowski | 26 km | Ercole Dembowski (1815–1881). |
| Democritus | 39 km | Democritus (circa 460–360 B.C.). |
| Demonax | 128 km | Demonax (unknown-circa 100 B.C.) |
| Denning | 44 km | William Frederick Denning (1848–1931) |
| Desargues | 85 km | Gerard Desargues (1593–1662) |
| Descartes | 48 km | René Descartes (1596–1650) |
| Deseilligny | 6 km | Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny (1868–1918) |
| Deslandres | 256 km | Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853–1948) |
| Deutsch | 66 km | Armin Joseph Deutsch (1918–1969) |
| Dewar | 50 km | Sir James Dewar (1842–1923) |
| Diana | 50 km | (Latin feminine name) |
| Diderot | 20 km | Denis Diderot (1713–1784) |
| Dionysius | 18 km | St. Dionysius the Areopagite (A.D. 9–120) |
| Diophantus | 17 km | Diophantus (unknown-circa A.D. 300). |
| Dirichlet | 47 km | Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859) |
| Dobrovol'skiy | 38 km | Georgiy T. Dobrovolskiy (1928–1971) |
| Doerfel | 68 km | Georg Samuel Doerfel (1643–1688) |
| Dollond | 11 km | John Dollond (1826–1873) |
| Donati | 36 km | Giovanni Battista Donati (1826–1873) |
| Donna | 2 km | (Italian female name) |
| Donner | 58 km | Anders Severin Donner (1854–1938) |
| Doppelmayer | 63 km | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer (1671–1750) |
| Doppler | 110 km | J. Christian Doppler (1803–1853) |
| Douglass | 49 km | Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867–1962) |
| Dove | 30 km | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879) |
| Draper | 8 km | Henry Draper (1837–1882) |
| Drebbel | 30 km | Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1634) |
| Dreyer | 61 km | John L. E. Dreyer (1852–1926) |
| Drude | 24 km | Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (1863–1906) |
| Dryden | 51 km | Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898–1965) |
| Drygalski | 149 km | Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (1865–1949) |
| Dubyago | 51 km | Dmitrij I. Dubyago (1850–1918) |
| Alexander D. Dubyago (1903–1959) | ||
| Dufay | 39 km | Jean Dufay (1896–1967) |
| Dugan | 50 km | Raymond Smith Dugan (1878–1940) |
| Dunér | 62 km | Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839–1914) |
| Dunthorne | 15 km | Richard Dunthorne (1711–1775) |
| Dyson | 63 km | Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939) |
| Dziewulski | 63 km | Wladyslaw Dziewulski (1878–1962) |
E
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Eckert | 2 km | Wallace John Eckert (1902–1971) |
| Eddington | 118 km | Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) |
| Edison | 62 km | Thomas A. Edison (1847–1931) |
| Edith | 8 km | (English female name) |
| Egede | 37 km | Hans Egede (1686–1758) |
| Ehrlich | 30 km | Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) |
| Eichstadt | 49 km | Lorentz Eichstadt (1596–1660) |
| Eijkman | 54 km | Christiaan H. Eijkman (1858–1930) |
| Eimmart | 46 km | Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638–1705) |
| Einstein | 198 km | Albert Einstein (1879–1955) |
| Einthoven | 69 km | Willem Einthoven (1879–1955) |
| Elger | 21 km | Thomas Gwyn Elger (1838–1897) |
| Ellerman | 47 km | Ferdinand Ellerman (1869–1940) |
| Ellison | 36 km | Mervyn Archdall Ellison (1909–1963) |
| Elmer | 36 km | Charles Wesley Elmer (1872–1954) |
| Elvey | 74 km | Christian Thomas Elvey (1899–1970) |
| Emden | 111 km | J. Robert Emden (1862–1940) |
| Encke | 28 km | Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865) |
| Endymion | 123 km | Endymion |
| Engel'gardt | 43 km | Vasilij P. Engel'gardt (Engelhardt) (1828–1915) |
| Eötvös | 99 km | Roland von Eötvös (1848–1919) |
| Epigenes | 55 km | Epigenes (unknown-circa 200 B.C.) |
| Epimenides | 27 km | Epimenides (flourished 596 B.C.) |
| Eratosthenes | 58 km | Eratosthenes (circa 276–196 B.C.) |
| Erro | 61 km | Luis Enrique Erro (1897–1955) |
| Esclangon | 15 km | Ernest Esclangon (1876–1954) |
| Esnault-Pelterie | 790 km | Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957) |
| Espin | 75 km | Rev. Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin (1858–1934) |
| Euclides | 11 km | Euclid (unknown-circa 300 B.C.) |
| Euctemon | 62 km | Euctemon (flourished 432 B.C.) |
| Eudoxus | 67 km | Eudoxus of Cnidus (circa 408–355 B.C.) |
| Euler | 27 km | Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) |
| Evans | 67 km | Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) |
| Evdokimov | 50 km | Nikolaj N. Evdokimov (1868–1940) |
| Evershed | 66 km | John Evershed (1864–1956) |
| Ewen | 3 km | (Gaelic male name) |
F
| Crater | Diameter | Eponym |
|---|---|---|
| Fabbroni | 10 km | Giovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni (1752–1822) |
| Fabricius | 78 km | David Fabricius (1564–1617) |
| Fabry | 184 km | Charles Fabry (1867–1945) |
| Fahrenheit | 6 km | Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736) |
| Fairouz | 3 km | (Arabic female name) |
| Faraday | 69 km | Michael Faraday (1791–1867) |
| Faustini | 39 km | Arnoldo Faustini (1874–1944) |
| Fauth | 12 km | Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth (1867–1941) |
| Faye | 36 km | Hervé Faye (1814–1902) |
| Fechner | 63 km | Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887) |
| Fedorov | 6 km | A. P. Fedorov (1872–1920) |
| Felix | 1 km | (Latin male name) |
| Fényi | 38 km | Gyula Fényi (1845–1927) |
| Feoktistov | 23 km | Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (1926-) |
| Fermat | 38 km | Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) |
| Fermi | 183 km | Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) |
| Fernelius | 65 km | Jean Fernel (1497–1558) |
| Fersman | 151 km | Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Fersman (1883–1945) |
| Fesenkov | 35 km | Vasiliy Grigor'evich Fesenkov (1889–1972) |
| Feuillée | 9 km | Louis Feuillée (1660–1732) |
| Finsch | 4 km | Otto Friedrich Hermann Finsch (1839–1917) |
| Finsen | 72 km | Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904) |
| Firmicus | 56 km | Firmicus Maternus (unknown-circa 330) |
| Firsov | 6 km | Georgij F. Firsov (1917–1960) |
| Fischer | 30 km | Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919) |
| Hans Fisher (1881–1945) | ||
| Fitzgerald | 110 km | George Francis Fitzgerald (1851–1901) |
| Fizeau | 111 km | Armand Hippolyte L. Fizeau (1819–1896) |
| Flammarion | 74 km | Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) |
| Flamsteed | 20 km | John Flamsteed (1646–1719) |
| Fleming | 106 km | Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) |
| Williamina P. Fleming (1857–1911) | ||
| Florensky | 71 km | Kirill Pavlovich Florensky (1915–1982) |
| Focas | 22 km | Ionnas Focas (1908–1969) |
| Fontana | 31 km | Francesco Fontana (circa 1585–1656) |
| Fontenelle | 38 km | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) |
| Foster | 33 km | John Stuart Foster (1890–1964) |
| Foucault | 23 km | Léon Foucault (1819–1868) |
| Fourier | 51 km | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) |
| Fowler | 146 km | Alfred Fowler (1868–1940) |
| Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944) | ||
| Fox | 24 km | Philip Fox (1878–1944) |
| Fra Mauro | 101 km | Fra Mauro (unknown-1459) |
| Fracastorius | 112 km | Girolamo Fracastoro (1483–1553) |
| Franck | 12 km | James Franck (1882–1964) |
| Franklin | 56 km | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) |
| Franz | 25 km | Julius Heinrich Franz (1847–1913) |
| Fraunhofer | 56 km | Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826) |
| Fredholm | 14 km | Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866–1927) |
| Freud | 2 km | Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) |
| Freundlich | 85 km | Erwin Findlay-Freundlich (1885–1964) |
| Fridman | 102 km | Aleksandr Alexandrovich Fridman (Friedmann) (1888–1925) |
| Froelich | 58 km | Jack E. Froelich (1921–1967) |
| Frost | 75 km | Edwin B. Frost (1866–1935) |
| Fryxell | 18 km | R. H. Fryxell (1934–1974) |
| Furnerius | 135 km | Georges Furner (flourished 1643) |
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