Daguerre is a circular formation near the north end of Mare Nectaris. To the west-northwest is Mädler crater, and beyond it to the west is the prominent Theophilus crater. To the north in the rugged continental area between the maria is the Isidorus crater.

French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype (1789-1851)

Louis Jacques Mandé, 1789-1851 - French painter who, in 1839, with Nicéphone Niépce, invented the daguerrotype.