Gullstrand (crater)

Gullstrand is a lunar impact crater that lies on the northern hemisphere on the Moon's far side.

The inner walls of Gullstrand are relatively simple and featureless, and the interior floor is not marked by any craters of note.

The crater was formally named by the IAU in 1970 after Swedish ophthalmologist Allvar Gullstrand.

[1] Gullstrand lies at the approximate margin of the Coulomb-Sarton Basin, a 530 km wide impact crater of Pre-Nectarian age.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Gullstrand.

Oblique Lunar Orbiter 5 image
Highly oblique view facing west, also from Lunar Orbiter 5