Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth was a German elementary school teacher and astronomer who excelled in lunar research conducted during forty years in his observatories in Landstuhl and later Grünwald. Th
Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth (1930)
Comparison of Moon crater Copernicus as drawn by Philipp Fauth in 1932 und photographed by Lunar Orbiter 4 in 1967. The small double crater at the bottom of the pictures is named after Fauth.
Philipp Fauth and his third observatory on the Kirchberg hill near Landstuhl, c. 1930
Johann Nepomuk Krieger
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Johann Nepomuk Krieger was a draftsman and selenographer who produced detailed hand-drawn maps of the lunar surface at his Italian observatory.
