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'The concept of providing a day-by-day photographic guide for observing Lunar features throughout an entire Lunation, specifically aimed at owners of small telescopes, is excellent … I recommend the book for those wishing to have a crash course on the Moon's features …'. Mike Brown, Popular Astronomy
'… it is a splendid guide to identifying the various features; I have never seen this better done. The text is written in a charmingly informal style, and it is clear that the authors are real enthusiasts - or lunatics, as they call themselves! I have been observing the Moon for over seventy years, and I have a great deal of lunar material, but this delightful and refreshing Atlas will have an honoured place in my library.' Patrick Moore, The Observatory
'… a beautifully presented guide to observing lunar features with small telescopes … an excellent photographic lunar day-by-day guide and I can certainly recommend it to owners of small telescopes and less-experienced observers. All you need is a month of clear skies to follow an entire Lunation!' Gordon Nason, Astronomy & Space
'… it is a splendid guide to identifying the various features; I have never seen this better done. The text is written in a charmingly informal style, and it is clear that the authors are real enthusiasts - or lunatics, as they call themselves! I have been observing the Moon for over seventy years, and I have a great deal of lunar material, but this delightful and refreshing Atlas will have an honoured place in my library.' Patrick Moore, The Observatory
'… a beautifully presented guide to observing lunar features with small telescopes … an excellent photographic lunar day-by-day guide and I can certainly recommend it to owners of small telescopes and less-experienced observers. All you need is a month of clear skies to follow an entire Lunation!' Gordon Nason, Astronomy & Space
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The Photographic Atlas of the Moon is a day-by-day photographic guide to observing the features of the Moon through a small telescope. Compiled by three keen amateur astronomers, each image was produced using a 40cm telescope and high-resolution low speed film. Whole Moon images are provided for each day of the 29-day lunar cycle, with labelled features and accompanying descriptive text. Selected lunar features are shown at high magnification to highlight and clearly illustrate certain regions. All lunar features are labelled using current IAU terminology. A comprehensive set of appendices detail the phases of the Moon, give a chronology of lunar selenography, and index all lunar features named in the text. This atlas is an invaluable reference guide for amateurs engaging in lunar observations with a small telescope.
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But you can't see the 0-day Moon; that's the New Moon when its unilluminated surface faces the Earth. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
But you can't see the 0-day Moon; that's the New Moon when its unilluminated surface faces the Earth. Read the first page
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Quality and Ease of Use - My Indispensable Tool, 3 Jan 2006
By AstroGirl "Bettina" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Hardcover)
This book is one of my most reliable tools when I'm out observing the Moon. I'm currently working on earning two Observing Certificates from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, which means I spend a lot of time drawing and documenting Moon features, and this book is always by my side. The "upside-down" images make it easy to find features while observing at the telescope, since my Dobsonian telescope (like many others) also inverts the image. Lunar features are easy to find - just flip to the right day of lunation, and you'll have an accurate representation of what you can expect to see through your eyepiece. The size of the images is large enough to find even small craters, scarps, mountains etc. And since this book was made using "old fashioned" film photography, it doesn't suffer from the pixelation I've seen in many other lunar guide books which use CCD imagery. Finally, if you're interested in observing more than just the obvious lunar features, the texts that accompany each day's lunar image provide the more experienced observer with suggestions of additional features the search for.
All in all, I love this book and have been using it steadily during my observing sessions.
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An easy to use moon atlas!, 26 April 2003
By Robert J. Petrokubi - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Hardcover)
I am not an astronomer, amateur or otherwise. I simply like to look at the moon when I have some free time. The reason I like this atlas is that it shows high resolution photographs through a 40 cm Cassegrain telescope of the terminator day by day through a whole lunar cycle. Now when I have some time to look at the moon I go to the proper page showing the present day's terminator and I see a beautiful photograph with all the main features identified on the photo and a short description/ discussion of these features on the opposing page, no page flipping required. This book is great for beginners although there is a lot of other information for those more experienced. The only drawback is the price which is expensive for 146 pages but then half of this book is high quality photographic reproductions, no blurred out features here.
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moon atlas, 24 Jun 2010
By flowernoire - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Hardcover)
clear photos and clear labeling; high quality paper; large size pages allow decent size photos.
photos are reversed right-left , they are inverted horizontally, i.e. they are not what is seen with the naked eye.
this book is significantly better than legault-brunier's new atlas of the moon.
the best moon atlas for me is by antonin rukl. the drawings are oriented the same as the naked eye view. however; rukl's book is expensive.
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