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Timocharis

American  
[ti-mok-er-is] / tɪˈmɒk ər ɪs /

noun

  1. a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 25 miles (40 km) in diameter.


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Timocharis is surrounded by a pale irregular nimbus and faint rays, most prominently developed on the W. side of the formation.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

Lambert is seventeen miles in diameter, and Euler nineteen, while Timocharis is twenty-three miles broad and 7,000 feet deep below its walls, which rise only 3,000 feet above the surface of the Mare.

From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss

The little double crater, Beer, between Archimedes and Timocharis, is very bright.

From Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss

Aristillus and Timocharis set up instruments and fixed the positions of the zodiacal stars, near to which all the planets in their orbits pass, thus facilitating the determination of planetary motions.

From History of Astronomy by George Forbes

On the W., towards Timocharis, is a brilliant mountain 3000 feet high, a beautiful little object under a low sun.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

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