New! Pictures taken by japanese probe KAGUYA and put online by JAXA agency, 160 new pictures of main Nearside formations taken with a low angle. Note : This library will not be completed in the future because of the availability of the high resolution Photographic Clementine texture (500 m). (Formations whose official name begins with A and B) Nearside formations pictures taken by american and soviet probes :įormations pictures taken by Clementine american probe :ĭifferent from LOPAM pictures, These new photos have been taken with a solar vertical lighting and show albedo variations in formations. Luna, Ranger, Lunar Orbiter 1,2,3,5 And Surveyor Probes They show formations with angular views different from the view from earth. New! Nearside formations pictures extracted from Consolidated Lunar Atlas put online by the Lunar and Planetary InstituteĪPOLLO pictures of Nearside taken from orbit by Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12 ,13 ,14 ,15 ,16 and 17 missions from 1968 to 1972. Nearside formations pictures extracted from Lunar Astronautical Charts and Lunar Maps put online by the Lunar and Planetary Institute Lunar Astronautical Charts &Amp Lunar Maps
The pictures library for those who don’t want to download more !Īpollo Mapping Cameras pictures from missions Apollo 15,16 & 17 put online by Lunar and Planetary Institute Details to 300 m / pixel.ġ30 pictures of the most famous lunar formations. Pictures extracted from LOPAM and taken by Lunar Orbiter 4 probe. New version destripped using Niels Noordhoek routine (Thanks to him !) A Map of the Moon Schoolroom Chart- 12 x 18 Poster - Lunar, Montessori, Home School, Educational, Astronomy, Nature Study. Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas Of The Moon ( Lopam )Ĭontains more than 1000 pictures extracted from LOPAM and taken by Lunar Orbiter 4 probe. – Nearside formations pictures by Zac Pujic, Mike Wirths and Craig Zerbe (Thanks to them !) – Nearside formations pictures by Wes Higgins (Thanks to him !) – Nearside formations pictures by Paolo Lazzarotti, (Thanks to him !) Includes 3 pictures libraries with some best amateur formation pictures. Ideal texture for using with scientific overlays. New! Topographic map drawn with airbrush and without albedo hues.
New! Very high resolution photographic texture with shadowed relief realized from Lunar Orbiters data. High resolution Lunar Orbiter photographic texture New! Photographic texture covering complete lunar globe realized from Clementine probe data (CopyrightÂUSGS / AstrogeologyÂ. I began getting to know the biggest craters and the seas, which were familiar to my eye but I had never been able to name before.Download Add-ons High resolution Clementine photographic textures
My advice with your new map is to start big and go small. Make best use of your map by studying the moon during second and third quarters, when the shadows are long and the moon is well placed in the night sky.įocus on the terminator - the dividing line between 'night and day' on the moon - because the shadows are greatest of all here, and they'll let you pick out the smallest features. Once you have the big feature in your sights, it is much easier to use the map and 'hop' from crater to crater to the find your prize! In Summary To do this, I recommend finding a really big and obvious moon feature which you don't need the map for, but which is near the landmark you are hunting, such as Tyco, Copernicus, Mare Nectaris, etc. So, to use them well, you need to match what you see in the eyepiece to what's on the map.
Your telescope, depending on its set up, will show the moon upside-down, mirror image or as per naked eye. Some maps are presented as you see the moon - for example the Philip's Moon Map - whilst others, like Sky & Telescope's Field Map of the Moon, present a mirror image version. It also helped me compile my guide to the Lunar 100, which you can see here.Ī map of the moon's surface is highly useful for discovering new features, but you need a technique or two to understand and correlate what you see on the map with what you see through your telescope. I plan to find a feature, look for it and get a buzz when I discover what I was looking for.īeing the owner of a moon crater map gives me that ability every time the moon is out - and you could be getting that buzz of discovery and recognition too! Through your telescope, I bet you're good for the bigger mountain ranges, like the Appenines and maybe even the craters which stand out at first and last quarters, like Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel and Purbach.īut, if you're not already using a moon map ( this is the one that I use), then I'm willing to bet you don't know the (very) nearby Herschel, Alpetragius or Thebit craters?Īnd that's where the idea of a map of the moon with labels comes into play: for me, the joy of astronomy (aside from some stunning views) is the feeling of discovery. You can probably name many surface features of the moon with the naked eye - especially the bigger mare - and Tycho.