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Blind-Cyclops
sage
Reged: 11/28/05
Posts: 488
Loc: Kitchener, ON, Canada
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Hello Tom,
You may want to take a look at this web site too...
http://www.lunarrepublic.com/atlas/index.shtml
It seems to be very good for an online computer based reference.
Hold you mouse over various features and the names and sizes appear.
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Clear skies...
Duncan 
"Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!"
-- Closing line in movie spoken by newspaper report Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer) in the Sci-Fi movie
"The Thing From Another World", RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.
Antares (refractor) 127mm f/6.45. w/2-spd Crayford
Orion (Maksutov) 150mm f/12 w/2" EP adapter
Giro 3 (twin), 18" pier, EQ5 tripod.
Garrett 20x80mm, 410 head, 055 tripod.
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starrancher
professor emeritus
Reged: 06/09/09
Posts: 574
Loc: Northern Arizona
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Hello Tom,
You may want to take a look at this web site too...
http://www.lunarrepublic.com/atlas/index.shtml
It seems to be very good for an online computer based reference.
Hold you mouse over various features and the names and sizes appear.
Very cool Duncan ! Thanks for posting ! I'll ad that to my favorites .
BTW hows the weather in Kitchener ? My family is all from there , then they moved to the States & I came along about a month later . I guess that makes me a "Dually" . eh ?
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LXD75 AR5
LXD75 SN8
Series 4000 Plossls
Misc. other stuff
Fort Rock , Az .
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Blind-Cyclops
sage
Reged: 11/28/05
Posts: 488
Loc: Kitchener, ON, Canada
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Wellll howdeee naaaybor, ! ! !
By chance... there wouldn't be a spare corner of the pasture down your way for me to sit-a-spell and look at the stars and moon... would there... would there... huh... huh... ???? (perddee pleeze!)
LOL
The weather last winter was totally busted -- only 3-4 night out of the whole winter were observing nights. Come spring, half the club couldn't spell "sky," much less "as-stron-nom-mee." Finding and naming constellations and stars... ? ...forget it. However, most of us have recovered just in time for another winter... Many folks here have lots of stuff crossed already -- fingers, toes, arms, legs, braided hair, beards and long upper-lip-hair-fuzz, etc.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working too well. You may have to mail us an astronomy dictionary come spring...
(ever bump into David Levy [another Canadian] in your travels down those long dusty roads or marshmallow roasts on mountain tops with your scopes?)
Cheers
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Clear skies...
Duncan
"Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!"
-- Closing line in movie spoken by newspaper report Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer) in the Sci-Fi movie
"The Thing From Another World", RKO Radio Pictures, 1951.
Antares (refractor) 127mm f/6.45. w/2-spd Crayford
Orion (Maksutov) 150mm f/12 w/2" EP adapter
Giro 3 (twin), 18" pier, EQ5 tripod.
Garrett 20x80mm, 410 head, 055 tripod.
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starrancher
professor emeritus
Reged: 06/09/09
Posts: 574
Loc: Northern Arizona
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Yep ! ...The southwest has got to have some of the darkest , cleanest skies that one could grab . High desert IMO is the best . A little altitude & an arid atmosphere . Haven't run into Levy yet . Maybe some day . I'd probably have to go down south to run into him . I think he likes it down around Jack Newtons' place .
Cheers
Dave
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LXD75 AR5
LXD75 SN8
Series 4000 Plossls
Misc. other stuff
Fort Rock , Az .
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Phred Smith
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Reged: 07/20/09
Posts: 17
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I've been looking for a good atlas to use at the telescope and havn't found one yet. Rukl's is a great atlas but difficult to use in the field as it does not lay flat.
I decided to make my own using the Consolidated Lunar Atlas Images available online. I hope to have it available for download/printing by Jan 1 2010.
Here's the low-res version of what I have so far. 76 images hand stitched together.
http://www.astronomylogs.com/CLAMosaicLR.jpg
The hi-res image is 43.5"x43.5" at 300 dpi. It's also a little over 3 GB. At that size I won't be able to offer it for download on my website
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auriga
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 03/02/06
Posts: 794
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I've been looking for a good atlas to use at the telescope and havn't found one yet. Rukl's is a great atlas but difficult to use in the field as it does not lay flat.
I decided to make my own using the Consolidated Lunar Atlas Images available online. I hope to have it available for download/printing by Jan 1 2010.
Here's the low-res version of what I have so far. 76 images hand stitched together.
http://www.astronomylogs.com/CLAMosaicLR.jpg
The hi-res image is 43.5"x43.5" at 300 dpi. It's also a little over 3 GB. At that size I won't be able to offer it for download on my website
Hi,
I like best the Rukl maps in the Collins Atlas of the Sky (Harper Collins, publisher. Storm Dunlop, author). Rukl did the moon maps.
A convenent 9 x 11 size book. with 16 large detailed maps by Rukl. I like it much better than the Rukl Atlas since there are fewer maps and so it's easier to know where you are on the moon. Perhaps a very advanced lunar observer might prefer the Rukl Atlas itself.
Opposite each moon map is a reversed version to match the view through SCTs and through refractors that use diagonals.
The book also contains fine large deep sky charts, to mag. 7.5 , by Wil Tirion, one for each constellation, and also large overall sky maps, also by Tiron.
A great beautiful hardcover book for $30. available often at overstock sale for $15. Somehow I wound up with three.
By far the best book for understanding what you are seeing on the moon is by the Sky & Telescope columnist Charles Wood: The Modern Moon: A Personal View (Sky Publishing). Wood is a lunar geologist who knows what he is talking about. He gives the big picture conceptually as well as giving details, and he has a charming writing style.
Bill Meyers
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Carl Kolchak
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Posts: 546
Loc: Northeast, Florida
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Bill Meyers said:
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By far the best book for understanding what you are seeing on the moon is by the Sky & Telescope columnist Charles Wood: The Modern Moon: A Personal View (Sky Publishing). Wood is a lunar geologist who knows what he is talking about. He gives the big picture conceptually as well as giving details, and he has a charming writing style.
Bill is absolutely correct. After I read Woods book I felt as though I knew what I was looking at much better. As I read his book I had Rukl's atlas with me and matched what I was reading about with what I was seeing in the atlas. Great experience and recommend everyone try it.
peace & clear skies,
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Richard H.
Antares 105mm f/9.5 Elite Series Refractor
AstroTelescopes 102mm f/7 Refractor
Orion ShortTube 90mm f/5.6 Refractor
Meade Model 300 80mm f/15 Refractor
Tasco Cosmic 6TE-5 50mm f/12 Refractor
Orion SkyView Pro 8" Intelliscope
Orion Scenix 10x50 Binoculars
Zhumell SuperGiant 20x80 binoculars
NightSky Journal
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Phred Smith
member
Reged: 07/20/09
Posts: 17
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Thanks Bill, I didn't know about the Collins Atlas. It's on order now from B&N.
I still think I'm going to complete my Lunar Atlas. I'm having to much fun to stop at this point.
Phred
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deSitter
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 12/09/04
Posts: 2925
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Vitual Moon Atlas is a free download , & you can print nightly charts .
The ND filter will come in handy for anytime your not viewing the crescent phase .
Since there is no need to preserve dark adaptation, you can just fire your computer up full blast and stare at it. VMA is probably as useful as any astro program ever written. While you are gazing, you can learn about the geology with the overlays. Really fantastic.
-drl
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