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1 online resource (xi, 408 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "Magnificent desolation" -- 1.1. An orbiting rock-ball -- 1.2. Phases and eclipses -- 1.3. Solar eclipses -- 1.4. Gravity and tides -- 1.5. More about the motions of the Moon -- libration -- 1.6. Co-ordinates on the surface of the Moon -- 1.7. Occultations -- 2. The Moon through the looking glass -- 2.1. The Moon in focus -- 2.2. The pioneering selenographers -- 3. Telescopes and drawing boards -- 3.1. What type of telescope do you need? -- 3.2. How big a telescope do you need? -- 3.3. So, what telescope should I spend my money on? -- 3.4. Eyepiece characteristics -- 3.5. Specific eyepiece types and magnification -- 3.6. Making the best of what you have -- 3.7. Drawing the Moon |
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4. The Moon in camera -- 4.1. Some basic principles of CCD astrocameras and digital cameras -- 4.2. Practical CCD astrocameras and digital cameras -- 4.3. The imaging area of a CCD camera when used on your telescope, or with an attached camera lens -- 4.4. Image scale using the supplied lenses on a '35mm format' DSLR -- 4.5. practical lunar photography through the telescope -- at the principal focus -- 4.6. The potential resolution of detail in the image -- 4.7. Enlarging the telescope's primary image -- 4.8. Image processing -- 5. Stacking up the Moon -- 5.1. The Moon and your domestic video camera -- 5.2. The benefits of stacking selected images -- 5.3. manually stacking individual frames -- 5.4. The webcam revolution -- 5.5. Your webcam and computer -- 5.6. The webcam's first night on your telescope -- 5.7. Stacking the images using RegiStax -- 5.8. Processing the stacked image in RegiStax -- 5.9. Striving for the best results |
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6. The physical Moon -- 6.1. The first lunar scouts -- 6.2. Men on the Moon -- 6.3. The post-Apollo Moon -- 6.4. Not green cheese but ... -- 6.5. Genesis of the Moon -- 6.6. The Moon's structure -- 6.7. The evolution of the Moon -- a brief overview -- 6.8. Lunar chronology -- 6.9. Filling in the details -- 7. Lunarware -- 7.1. Out-of-print books -- 7.2. Books currently in print -- 7.3. Printed maps, charts and atlases -- 7.4. Some useful website addresses concerning equipment and techniques -- 7.5. Consolidated Lunar Atlas, LUnar Orbiter Photographic Atlas, Apollo Image Atlas and Ranger photographs online -- 7.6. Clementine, Lunar Prospector and SMART-1 images and data online -- 7.7. Virtual Moon atlas -- 7.8. Lunar ephemerides -- 7.9. Key map for chapter 8 |
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8. 'A to Z' of selected lunar landscapes -- 8.1. Agarum, promontorium -- 8.2. Albategnius -- 8.3. Alpes, Vallis -- 8.4. Alphonsus -- 8.5. Apenninus, Montes -- 8.6. Ariadaeus, Rima -- 8.7. Aristarchus -- 8.8. Aristoteles -- 8.9. Bailly -- 8.10. Bullialdus -- 8.11. Cassini -- 8.12. Clavius -- 8.13. Copernicus -- 8.14. Crisium, Mare -- 8.15. Endymion -- 8.16. Fra Mauro -- 8.17. Furnerius -- 8.18. 'Gruithuisen's lunar city' -- 8.19. Harbinger, Montes -- 8.20. Hevelius -- 8.21. Hortensius -- 8.22. Humorum, Mare -- 8.23. Hyginus, Rima -- 8.24. Imbrium, Mare -- 8.25. Janssen -- 8.26. Langrenus -- 8.27. Maestlin R -- 8.28. Messier -- 8.29. Moretus -- 8.30. Nectaris, Mare -- 8.31. Neper -- 8.32. Pitatus -- 8.33. Plato -- 8.34. Plinius -- 8.35. Posidonius -- 8.36. Pythagoras -- 8.37. Ramsden -- 8.38. Regiomontanus -- 8.39. Russell -- 8.40. Schickard -- 8.41. Schiller -- 8.42. Sirsalis, Rimae -- 8.43. 'Straight Wall' (Rupes Recta) -- 8.44. Theophilus -- 8.45. Torricelli -- 8.46. Tycho -- 8.47. Wargentin |
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8.48. Wichmann -- 8.49. Webcam gallery -- 9. TLP or not TLP? -- 9.1. The mystery unfolds -- 9.2. Categories of TLP -- 9.3. The mystery continues -- 9.4. What might be the cause(s) of TLP? -- 9.5. Possible causes of bogus TLP -- 9.6. TLP observing programme -- Appendix 1 : Telescope collimation -- Appendix 2 : Field-testing a telescope's optics -- Appendix 3 : Polar alignment -- Index |
| Summary |
Provides background knowledge of the Moon and lunar observation and offers practical advice for novice and experienced astronomers on the best ways to observe the moon |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2000 |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Himmelsbeobachtung
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Modifizierte Newtonsche Dynamik
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| SUBJECT |
Moon -- Observers' manuals
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Moon. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087107
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Moon -- Observations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087131
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Moon
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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Observations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511290541 |
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0511290543 |
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0511289944 |
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9780511289941 |
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9780511287343 |
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0511287348 |
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