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Show Us Your Lunar Bookshelf

Started by scottinash , Mar 19 2025 08:30 AM

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#1 scottinash

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Posted 19 March 2025 - 08:30 AM

On a recent thread, Brent Knight suggested a new topic specific for lunar references (books, atlas, maps, periodicals, etc.). I do not see where anyone has kicked it off yet so thought I'd give it a shot.

Here is a section of my library with the most specifically consolidated lunar books. I have many more titles on other shelves and/or stored electronically (epub/pdf).

Preparing for this thread, I updated my spreadsheet of personal copies and surprised myself as to how many new titles I have added since I last updated a few months ago. Needless to say, I like old and new material.

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#2 BrentKnight

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Posted 19 March 2025 - 08:57 AM

Have you started Still as Bright yet, Scott?

Seriously excessive collection there...

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#3 scottinash

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Posted 19 March 2025 - 09:05 AM

Have you started Still as Bright yet, Scott?

Seriously excessive collection there...

I finished it; very good book! Will most likely read again in the near future (yes, that good).

Excessive huh? Pot and Kettle idiom comes to mind..... My lunar references are but a speck on the shelves amongst many great general astronomy, planetary and DSO specific!

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Posted 19 March 2025 - 09:43 AM

I don't think this is excessive, but it's borderline.

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Posted 19 March 2025 - 11:56 AM

Preparing for this thread, I updated my spreadsheet of personal copies and surprised myself as to how many new titles I have added since I last updated a few months ago. Needless to say, I like old and new material.

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#6 scottinash

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Posted 19 March 2025 - 12:25 PM

Ha! desertstars - I kinda think your 2005 posting "The Best of the Lunie Bin" has prompted/inspired me just a little along this adventure!

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Posted 20 March 2025 - 04:23 AM

That is quite an impressive collection of lunar books and starting a spreadsheet is something that perhaps I should also think about.

I have been observing the Moon since 1978 and have also built up a small lunar library over the past few years.

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Posted 20 March 2025 - 05:55 AM

I finished it; very good book! Will most likely read again in the near future (yes, that good).

I also noticed Still as Bright on that well-stocked shelf!

I'm about 1/4 of the way through it and am really enjoying it. For the love of all things rational, wow Chris Cokinos is a poet. From the moment he described the user of a Dob as a human sextant, I was hooked.

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#9 scottinash

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Posted 20 March 2025 - 07:03 AM

That is quite an impressive collection of lunar books and starting a spreadsheet is something that perhaps I should also think about.

I have been observing the Moon since 1978 and have also built up a small lunar library over the past few years.

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Very nice line-up Alex!

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Posted 20 March 2025 - 10:13 AM

That is quite an impressive collection of lunar books and starting a spreadsheet is something that perhaps I should also think about.

I have been observing the Moon since 1978 and have also built up a small lunar library over the past few years.

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Some nice classics on that shelf, Alex.

I haven't seen anyone's copy of The Moon: A Popular Treatise by Garrett P. Serviss yet. I have a copy that has been rebound (I can only assume it was well used).

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Posted 20 March 2025 - 10:48 AM

When I have some time to spare, I'll put together a list. Right now, they're scattered among several bookcases, so photos would be impractical.

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Posted 20 March 2025 - 03:14 PM

Mine are scattered around in the shelves, too. And my copy of Lunar from Univ Chicago Press has to lay down, too. And a few extra titles thrown in for fun.

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Posted 21 March 2025 - 12:55 PM

1 of 2

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Posted 21 March 2025 - 01:39 PM

2 of 2

The atlases

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Posted 25 March 2025 - 04:51 PM

Thank for the recommendations for "Still as Bright" earlier in the thread, I've just picked up a copy from the public library.

I've skimmed through it and the typography is really great. I'll make a hot tea tonight and start reading. The epigraph has quotations by Thoreau and Lord Byron, so that's a good sign already. I'll likely buy it as well.

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 11:19 AM

Thank for the recommendations for "Still as Bright" earlier in the thread, I've just picked up a copy from the public library.

I've skimmed through it and the typography is really great. I'll make a hot tea tonight and start reading. The epigraph has quotations by Thoreau and Lord Byron, so that's a good sign already. I'll likely buy it as well.

It's a great book on so many different levels. A thorough account of humanity's relationship with the moon throughout the ages with the author's personal journal as well.

And, if you like words, you'll love the author's prose. This man can write. It has been a long time since I've enjoyed the prose of a popular astronomy book as much as this one.

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 04:54 PM

I just found this on Amazon https://a.co/d/9nH2UQt A new Who’s Who In The Moon book being released on March 30th. Has anyone heard anything about it???

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 07:42 PM

I haven’t seen that book, but I remember reading an article somewhere that explained who the people were behind the names of the craters on the moon

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 08:08 PM

Not the best photos I've ever taken, but they should do the job. It's take multiple posts, I'm afraid.

The spiral bound book is the Duplex lunar atlas.

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 08:11 PM

The other half of that shelf.

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 08:12 PM

And perched on top...

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 08:15 PM

And last...

The book with Flight Atlas on the spine is a relic from childhood. Moon Flight Atlas was produced by Rand McNally after Apollo 11, to accompany a lunar globe, which I also still have after all these years.

The slim green volume is The Moon As Viewed By Lunar Orbiter.

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#23 scottinash

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Posted 26 March 2025 - 09:24 PM

Very nice collection, Thomas!

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Posted 27 March 2025 - 07:03 AM

Some very interesting books in there, Thomas.

Including a first edition copy of Moon Flight Atlas (last photo, at left)?

It's always good to see the number of people who have Harold Hill's Portfolio of Lunar Drawings. As a young BAA Lunar Section member in the 1970s I remember gawking on many occasions at the scope and quality of his work.