Reiner Gamma
What Reiner Gamma is
Reiner Gamma is an albedo feature — a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance — on The Moon, 73.4 km across, centred at 7.4° N, 59.0° W in the Hevelius quadrangle. It is the 621st largest named feature on The Moon and the 1st largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Reinieri, Vincentio; Italian astronomer, mathematician (unkn-1648). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1935.
What it would take to settle Reiner Gamma
The Moon scores 29.1 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 7.4° N, 59.0° W.
What this spot has going for it is earth link — near side — Earth stands 31° above the horizon and never moves. What works against it is water — outside the ice-bearing latitudes.
Computed from Reiner Gamma's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and one axis was dropped as not applicable to The Moon (radiation geometry). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on The Moon and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.
What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.