What is "alphonsus"

Alphonsus is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the pre-Nectarian era. It is located on the lunar highlands on the eastern end of Mare Nubium, west of the Imbrian Highlands, and slightly overlaps the crater Ptolemaeus to the north. To the northwest is the smaller Alpetragius.

Alphonsus may refer to:

as a given name:

• any of a number of rulers named Alfonso
• Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Roman Catholic Saint
• Alphonsus Liguori Penney (born 1924), Canadian Roman Catholic priest
• Alphonsus Rodriguez (1532–1617), Spanish Jesuit
• Alphonsus a Sancta Maria (1396–1456), Spanish historian
• Alphonsus de Guimaraens(1870—1921), Brazilian poet

as a surname:

• Petrus Alphonsi (or Petrus Alfonsus) (1062–1110), Spanish Jewish writer

other:

• Alphonsus (crater) lunar crater