Named for Sir Frederick Banting (1891-1941), born in Alliston, ON. Doctor and Nobel laureate for co-discovery of insulin.
Isolated bowl-shaped impact crater on more Serenitatis, SE of Linné. Former name was Linné E.
Diameter: 5 km Rukl: 23 Type: Crater
Objects: Banting
Others Identified: Linné, Basel, Deseilligny, Menelaus, Sarabhai, Sulpicius Gallus; ghost craters Dawes, Plinius
Other Features: Dorsa Aldrovandi, Dorsa Azara, Dorsa Gast, Dorsum Buckland,
Location: Home
Date: 2019-04-11
Time: 11:45 PM AST
Equipment: 10” Meade SCT
Eyepiece: Meade Super Plössl 9.7mm
Magnification: x257
Seeing: Very Good (4)
Transparency: Excellent (5)
