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Phred Smith
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I created this image using the Consolidated Lunar Atlas from NASA. It's 82 images hand stitched together.
You can download a 24" x 24" version from my website.
http://www.astronomylogs.com
I hope you find it useful
Phred
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RobertED
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Phred!, you've got an awesome website there!!! Excellent Moon Map...Thank You!!! 
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old_frankland
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An excellent piece of work. An excellent reference resource. Thanks!
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Cheers,
Jim
Livermore CA
http://www.lafterhall.com/astro.html
3" APO, 4" ED refractor, 9" SCT, GM8
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John Noble
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Phred ... wow. The Moon image is nice (the final 3GB version should be mind blowing), but I feel like I should be paying for the rest of the stuff.
Seriously, sometimes I get kind of down about the cesspool formerly known as the World Wide Web. Then I run across a site like yours and feel like there's some hope. Well done, indeed.
Anyone reading this should know that Phred's site has a whole lot more than a pretty picture of the Moon. It's a treasure trove of printer fodder: log books, charts, and some really useful & unique reference pages.
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"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
--Huckleberry Finn
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Junn Chavez
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Phred,
Stitching 82 moon images?, now that's what I called dedication 
Thanks for the photo.
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Jim Mosher
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Phred,
This is a nice complement to the similar earlier effort by Pablo Lonnie Pacheco, who chose to use Consolidated Lunar Atlas images with lighting from the east (as opposed to the "afternoon" lighting you have used).
Although your blending of the images is very masterful, the geometric accuracy seems less perfect. In making mosaics of this sort it might be helpful to overlay the tiles on a geometrically accurate template, as Pablo did. That might avoid such obvious errors (if the intention was to show the Moon at zero libration) as having Grimaldi wrapping over the limb on the left. The recent USGS Lunar Orbiter mosaic might be useful, as it places the craters quite accurately. I believe it can be remapped into the orthographic projection we see from Earth by using the Virtual Moon Atlas or LTVT (the Lunar Orbiter texture can be downloaded from Map-a-Planet).
-- Jim
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Phred Smith
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Hi Jim, You're correct about the geometric accuracy. I stitched the images and then tried to align the entire map with a templete. It would have been better to align each image but more time consuming. I'm in the process of doing that now though. The CLA images don't show the entire libration zones, I'm also working on a fix for that as I would like to show the entire visable moon.
Phred
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Phred Smith
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A new slightly larger image of the moon is now available on my website. This new image is more accurate and shows most of the libration zones.
www.astronomylogs.com
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star drop
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That looks better, Phred.
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