Stark is a lunar

Moon

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 crater

Impact crater

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 on the far side of the Moon

Moon

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. It lies to the southeast of the prominent crater Tsiolkovskiy

Tsiolkovskiy (crater)

Tsiolkovskiy is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the southern hemisphere, to the west of the crater Gagarin, and northwest of Milne. Just to the south is Waterman, with Neujmin to the south-southwest. This feature was discovered on photographs sent...

, and north of Subbotin

Subbotin (crater)

Subbotin is a lunar crater that is located to the west of the larger crater Pavlov, and to the east-northeast of Lampland. Subbotin lies on the far side of the Moon, and can only be viewed from lunar orbit....

.

This is a heavily eroded crater with a jumbled outer rim and uneven interior. The pair of slightly smaller satellite craters Stark Y and Stark V are attached to the northwest and western exterior respectively, creating a triple-crater formation. (The designations Homer

Homer

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 for Stark Y and Sappho

Sappho

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 for Stark V were suggested for these features, but the IAU

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 rejected these names.) Within the interior of Stark is a small crater located just to the south of the mid-point.

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 Stark.

Stark	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
R	26.3° S	133.2° E	21 km
V	25.1° S	133.3° E	25 km
Y	24.4° S	134.0° E	31 km

External links

• LTO-102D1 Stark — L&PI topographic map
  Topographic map
  A topographic map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines in modern mapping, but historically using a variety of methods. Traditional definitions require a topographic map to show both natural and man-made features...