Peirescius is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon. It is close enough to the limb that it appears significantly...

Peiresc, an outer main-belt asteroid named after the astronomer Peirescius (crater), a crater located in the southeastern part of the Moon, also named after...

lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon, to the south of the crater Peirescius. To the northwest lie the craters Vega and...

is the slightly smaller Peirescius. About one and a half crater diameters to the west is the long Vallis Rheita. This crater has been worn and eroded...

the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...

his work. Peiresc was honored in 1935 by the naming of the lunar crater Peirescius (46.5S, 67.6E, 61 km diameter); and in 1993 by the naming of the asteroid...

(1580–1637) – abbot and astronomer who discovered the Orion Nebula; lunar crater Peirescius named in his honor Stephen Joseph Perry (1833–1889) – Jesuit astronomer...

crater Kirch. On December 28, 1985, Harold Hill observed an extraordinary brilliance at the mid-section of the east inner wall of crater Peirescius....

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, discoverer of the Orion Nebula, after whom the lunar impact crater Peirescius is named...