Sharp is a lunar

Moon

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 impact crater

Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 located to the west of the Sinus Iridum

Sinus Iridum

Sinus Iridum is a plain of basaltic lava that forms a northwestern extension to the Mare Imbrium. It is surrounded from the northeast to the southwest by the Montes Jura range. The protruding part of the range at the southwest end is named Promontorium Heraclides, while that at the northeast end...

 bay of the Mare Imbrium

Mare Imbrium

Mare Imbrium, Latin for "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", is a vast lunar mare filling a basin on Earth's Moon and one of the larger craters in the Solar System. Mare Imbrium was created when lava flooded the giant crater formed when a very large object hit the Moon long ago...

, beyond the Montes Jura

Montes Jura

Montes Jura is a mountain range in the northwest part of the Moon . The selenographic coordinates of this range are 47.1° N 34.0° W, and it has a diameter of 422 km...

 range. To the southwest is the crater Mairan

Mairan (crater)

Mairan is a lunar impact crater that is located on a highland peninsula between Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Imbrium to the east. To the north-northeast is the comparably sized crater Sharp. Northwest of Mairan is the heavily eroded Louville....

. Because of its location and foreshortening, Sharp appears elliptical whereas the crater rim is actually circular.

Sharp is surrounded by a rugged region of mounts and rises. Ridges are joined to the north and south ends of the rim. The crater has a low central peak at the mid-point of the floor. Between Sharp and Sharp A is an unnamed sinuous rille

Rille

Rille is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the lunar surface that resemble channels. Typically a rille can be up to several kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers in length...

. The more distant Rima Sharp is located on the Mare Frigoris

Mare Frigoris

Mare Frigoris is a lunar mare located just north of Mare Imbrium, and stretches east to north of Mare Serenitatis. The mare is in the outer rings of the Procellarum basin...

to the northwest.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Sharp.

Sharp	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	47.6° N	42.6° W	17 km
B	47.0° N	45.3° W	21 km
D	44.8° N	42.1° W	8 km
J	46.9° N	37.9° W	6 km
K	47.4° N	38.5° W	5 km
L	45.8° N	38.2° W	6 km
M	47.3° N	41.4° W	4 km
U	47.4° N	48.6° W	6 km
V	46.2° N	46.9° W	7 km
W	50.2° N	45.3° W	4 km