The Hatfield Lunar Atlas

Digitally Re-Mastered Edition

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Anthony Cook

Verlag:

Springer Verlag

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 97R5LYQ

EAN: 9781461454984

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Beschreibung

"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's bible since it was first published in 1968. A major update of the atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that Commander Henry Hatfield made with his purpose-built 12-inch (300 mm) telescope, but bringing the lunar nomenclature up to date and changing the units from Imperial to S. I. metric This edition is important since the fact is that modern telescope optics, digital imaging equipment and computer enhancement can easily surpass what was achieved with Henry Hatfield's 12-inch telescope and a film camera. This limits the usefulness of the original atlas to visual observing or imaging rather small amateur telescopes. The new, digitally re-mastered edition vastly improves the clarity and definition of the original photographs - significantly beyond the resolution limits of the photographic grains present in earlier atlas versions - while preserving the layout and style of the original publications. This has been achieved by merging computer-visualized Earth-based views of the lunar surface, derived from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, with scanned copies of Commander Hatfield's photographic plates, using the author's own software. The results is a "The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" for 21st century amateur telescopes up to and beyond 12-inch aperture.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Anthony Cook

Thema

Astronomie: Allgemein, Astronomische Beobachtung, Sonne & Planeten

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Erscheinungsland

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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