![]() ![]() It's just a moderate slope rather than a steep drop as it might appear. It runs for 130 km, rising about 240-300 meters high. It's located east of Birt in the eastern Mare Nubium. Look for it when the moon is 8-9 days old. This particular example is easy to see in just about any telescope. Rupes Recta - Straight Wall - Rupes are fault scarps, where tectonic action took place. Rupes Recta (the Straight Wall) is barely visible in the middle. It's almost like looking through the telescope!Ħ.8 Day Moon, half size, no labels from 2/16/13ġ/200 sec, Takahashi TOA130 f7.7, fl=1000mm, Nikon D100, cropped, camera resolutionĨ day 16 hr old Moon Hatfield (mirror) orientation Takahashi TOA 130 telescope, Takahashi 1.6x extender, Nikon 1.4x extender, Nikon D7000 camera, 1/5 sec at ISO 100, 2/16/13. The colorful Full Moon Moved to this PageĦ.8 Day Moon, full camera resolution (4928x3264) New 2/13, 6.8 day old moon with some labeled features. A visual index to my moon pictures is on this page. Cherrington, Jr.Full Moon Pictures, Labeled Full Moon Pictures - Moon Features LabeledĬopyright © 1998-2013, Dick Locke. PriceĮxploring the Moon throught Binoculars by Ernest H. History of lunar cartography and nomenclature.Two very large lunar maps that fold out of the book.31 regions of very nice hand drawings descriptive detail.Four pages for each of the 29 days in the lunar cycleĪ Portofolio of Lunar Drawaings by Harold Hill.Some photographs taken from orbiting space craft and the Moon's surface.154 photographs with descriptive detailĪ New Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Zdenek Kopal.A very nice complement to The Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas by Jeremy Cook.76 sections of the Moon with each section taken with differen Moon phases.Very useful when working on the Astronomical League's Lunar Club. ![]() 16 sections of the Moon with each section taken with differen Moon phases.Most of the photographs were taken with a 12-inch Newtonian telescope.The Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas by Jeremy Cook Some of these books may be out of print and may not be available at new book stores. To find these books check your local library, your astronomy club's book library, NASA Planetary Data System MAP-A-PLANET.The Moon is waxing from new Moon to full Moon and the Moon is waning from full Moon to new Moon. New Moon to new Moon is a Moon synodic month which is an average of 29.53 days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 2.8 seconds). This program is a list of 100 lunar features to observe. Moon Location in the sky information from the freeware program Home Planet.Moon location in the sky information from the freeware program Sky Charts.The software includes "Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon" Moon surface details information from the freeware program Virtual Atlas of the Moonīy Patrick Chevalley and Christian Legrand.There are many resources that can help you in Moon observing.Īn excellent freeware program is the Virtual Atlas of the Moonīy Patrick Chevalley and Christian Legrand. Free software Virtual Atlas of the Moon.Moon atlas for lunar object locations on the Moon.Naval Observatory Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day Astronomical League Lunar Club Observing Log.The Moon is the closest celestial object to the Earth and is observed by using all four observing methods: ![]()
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