List of craters on the Moon

The lunar craters are listed in the following subsections. Where a formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

Lunar craters are listed alphabetically on the following partial lists:

Locations and diameters of some prominent craters on the near side of the Moon:

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  Albategnius (131 km)
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  Aristarchus (40 km)
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  Aristoteles (88 km)
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  Bailly (301 km)
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  Clavius (231 km)
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  Copernicus (96 km)
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  Fra Mauro (97 km)
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  Humboldt (199 km)
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  Janssen (201 km)
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  Langrenus (132 km)
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  Longomontanus (146 km)
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  Maginus (156 km)
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  Metius (84 km)
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  Moretus (114 km)
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  Petavius (184 km)
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  Picard (22 km)
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  Piccolomini (88 km)
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  Pitatus (101 km)
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  Plinius (41 km)
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  Rheita (71 km)
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  Russell (103 km)
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  Schickard (212 km)
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  Seleucus (45 km)
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  Stadius (68 km)
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  Stöfler (130 km)
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  Thebit (55 km)
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  Theophilus (99 km)
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  Tycho (85 km)
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  Vendelinus (141 km)
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  Wargentin (85 km)

• List of lunar features
• List of people with craters of the Moon named after them
• List of maria on the Moon
• List of mountains on the Moon
• List of valleys on the Moon
• Selenography

The following sources were used as references on the individual crater pages.

• Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A. (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.
• Blue, Jennifer (July 25, 2007). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". USGS. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
• Bussey, B.; Spudis, P. (2004). The Clementine Atlas of the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81528-2.
• Cocks, Elijah E.; Cocks, Josiah C. (1995). Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature. Tudor Publishers. ISBN 0-936389-27-3.
• McDowell, Jonathan (July 15, 2007). "Lunar Nomenclature". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
• Menzel, Donald H. (February 1971). "Final Report on NGR 22-007-194, Lunar Nomenclature" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
• Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B. (1971). "Report on Lunar Nomenclature by The Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU". Space Science Reviews. 12 (2): 136. Bibcode:1971SSRv...12..136M. doi:10.1007/BF00171763. S2CID 122125855.
• Moore, Patrick (2001). On the Moon. Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN 0-304-35469-4.
• Price, Fred W. (1988). The Moon observer's handbook. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33500-0.
• Rükl, Antonín (1990). Atlas of the Moon. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-913135-17-8.
• Webb, Rev. T. W. (1962). Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes (6th revised ed.). Dover. ISBN 0-486-20917-2.
• Whitaker, Ewen A. (1999). Mapping and Naming the Moon. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62248-4.
• Wlasuk, Peter T. (2000). Observing the Moon. Springer. ISBN 1-85233-193-3.

The following reference sites were also used during the assembly of the crater information.

• Astronomica Langrenus — Italian Lunar Web Site
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Moon map. List of craters on the Moon
• Lunar Atlases at the Lunar & Planetary Institute
  • Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
• Lunar Nomenclature
• Lunar Photo of the Day by Charles A. Wood et al.