The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes: A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition

226 Pages·2014·35.01 MB·English

by  Anthony Charles Cook (auth.)

Anthony Charles Cook
Editor
The Hatfi eld
SCT Lunar Atlas
Photographic Atlas for Meade,
Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes
A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
The Hatfi eld SCT Lunar Atlas

Anthony Charles Cook
The Hatfi eld

SCT Lunar Atlas
Photographic Atlas
for Meade, Celestron,
and Other SCT Telescopes
A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
Anthony Charles Cook
Newtown, UK
ISBN 978-1-4614-8638-1 ISBN 978-1-4614-8639-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-8639-8
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About the Editor
Anthony Charles Cook, Ph.D., FBIS, FRAS, is both an amateur astronomer and a professional lunar and planetary
cartographer. He has worked with many leading planetary cartography research groups in the UK, Germany, and the
USA. He produced a planet-wide digital elevation model (DEM) of the Moon in the year 2000, and this was used by the
European Space Agency to guide its SMART-1 spacecraft down to a precise impact. Six previously unknown impact
basins larger than 300-km across were discovered using this lunar DEM. Presently, he is a lecturer at the Institute of
Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University, in the UK. He is Assistant Director of the British Astronomical Lunar
Section and coordinates the Transient Lunar Phenomena observing program alongside a similar program for the
Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. He has also had Digital Planetary Cartography papers published in
several refereed scienti fi c journals.

Contents
1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Why a New Version of This Atlas? ................................................................................................................................... 1
The Maps: Overlaps, Scales, Grids .................................................................................................................................. 2
Nomenclature ................................................................................................................................................................... 2
The Libration Keys ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
The Moon’s Age and the Sun’s Selenographic Colongitude ......................................................................................... 3
The Digital Image Augmentation Process...................................................................................................................... 3
For Further Information .................................................................................................................................................. 5
2 Lunar Observing Techniques .......................................................................................................................................... 9
Projects for Beginners ...................................................................................................................................................... 9
Advanced Techniques ....................................................................................................................................................... 14
References ......................................................................................................................................................................... 22
3 Maps and Plates ................................................................................................................................................................ 25
4 Simulations of Sunrise and Sunset over Selected Areas ............................................................................................... 133
Appendices .............................................................................................................................................................................. 199
Appendix 1: Details about Commander Hatfield’s Photographic Plates ..................................................................... 199
Appendix 2: TLP Identification Flow Charts .................................................................................................................. 201
Appendix 3: Index of Named Formations ...................................................................................................................... 204