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mjs
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Reged: 02/26/04
Posts: 180
Loc: Northern Indiana
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(Cross posted from the Events category.)
I've been using Space.com's simple 1-page lunar map as handouts at our club's star parties and it's... ok. Is there something better out there for free? I want a one-page full disk map with the maria and larger craters named legibly. Even better if the back has some sort of "moon facts" or similar content. Not too complicated, something suitable for grade school kids, cub scouts, etc. Got any pointers?
Mike
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Jay_Bird
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Reged: 01/04/06
Posts: 958
Loc: Nevada 36N 115W
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I posted this in the other forum
http://www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm
then I came across the Sky and Telescope "let's go stargazing" pull-out from S&T or Night Sky several years ago that has a great moon map for your purpose. However, I couldn't find that same flier or map on the Sky & Telescope web site. You might PM Tony Flanders or Gery Seronik, who are CN regulars and S&T contributors, to help you find something useful.
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'these things stand like stone - kindness in another's troubles, courage in your own' Gordon
C-8, Nighthawk, C-90; Binoculars 6-11x21-80mm; Paragon p-mount
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JimK
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Reged: 09/18/05
Posts: 223
Loc: Albuquerque, NM USA
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Try Dave's Moon Map by David North, of the San Jose Astronomical Association.
His original article covering this map is here, and I've attached a tiny version of it to this post.
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Darenwh
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Reged: 05/11/06
Posts: 1219
Loc: Covington, GA
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What you are doing is great.
Perhaps to expand on this, for star party's a nice thing to do would be to hand out a lunar map as you are doing now with a check list for the person to try to identify the features visible with comman binoculars to test the people and get them interested. Include a hand out of how to steady binoculars when hand holding and a second hand out of other objects that can be viewed with binoculars to give the visitors a chance to see multiple things with their binoculars. If they can identify several features on the moon and a few features in the sky along with a few planets then they may very well get interested enough to get a scope and start viewing.
The last thing I would include is a list of decent quality scopes for certain price ranges. Perhaps a list of scopes under $150, 300, 500, and 1000.
This would basically be a good getting started in Astronomy kit. This could likely lead to an increase in membership for the club over time. As these could likely be printed out on a computer printer (with appropriate permissions) for very cheap this could be a great idea for public events.
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Daren
Covington, GA
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