Craters on the Moon

I decided it was time for me to stop ignoring the Moon. I never could get excited about the Moon when I was young but I have recently discovered that all of the features are named. This article explains who named the craters http://moonphases.info/how-the-lunar-craters-got-their-names.html Galileo coined the word "crater" from a Greek word for bowl because he was the first to see them as they are by looking at them through a telescope. I went out last night to take this photograph through my telescope. These northern craters were named by Giovanni Battista Riccioli a few years later after famous astronomers from the past. I'll have to find out what astronomy was done by Plato!