| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Maps: Overlaps, Scales, Grids -- Nomenclature -- The Librartion Keys -- The Moon's Age and the Sun's Selenographic Colongitude -- The Digital Image Augmentation Process -- For Further Information -- Chapter 2: Lunar Observing Techniques -- Projects for Beginners -- Advanced Techniques -- References -- Chapter 3: Maps and Plates -- Chapter 4: Simulations of Sunrise and Sunset over Selected Features -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Details of Commander Hatfields's Photographic Plates -- Appendix B: TLP Identification Flow Charts -- Appendix C: Index of Named Formations |
| Summary |
The Hatfield Lunar Atlas has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968 |
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A major update of the atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that Commander Henry Hatfield made with his purpose-built 12-inch (300 mm) telescope, but bringing the lunar nomenclature up to date and changing the units from Imperial to S.I. metric |
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However, with modern telescope optics, digital imaging equipment and computer enhancement new pictures can easily surpass what was achieved with Henry Hatfield's 12-inch telescope and a film camera. This limits the usefulness of the original atlas to visual observing or imaging with rather small amateur telescopes |
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The new, digitally re-mastered edition vastly improves the clarity and definition of the original photographs - significantly beyond the resolution limits of the photographic grains present in earlier atlas versions - while preserving the layout and style of the original publications. This has been achieved by merging computer-visualized Earth-based views of the lunar surface, derived from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, with scanned copies of Commander Hatfield's photographic plates, using the author's own software |
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The result is a The Hatfield Lunar Atlas for twenty-first century amateur telescopes |
| Analysis |
astronomie |
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astronomy |
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fysica |
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physics |
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Physics (General) |
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Fysica (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Physique.
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Astronomie.
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| SUBJECT |
Moon -- Maps.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087127
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Moon -- Remote-sensing images
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Moon -- Photographs from space.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087138
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Moon
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| Genre/Form |
photographs.
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Photographs
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Maps
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Photographs from space
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Remote-sensing images
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Remote-sensing images.
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Maps.
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Photographs.
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Images-satellite.
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Cartes géographiques.
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Photographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hatfield, H. (Henry).
Amateur astronomer's photographic lunar atlas
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| ISBN |
9781461454991 |
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1461454999 |
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9781283934152 |
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1283934159 |
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