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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781493938261
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas : Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other Sct Telescopes - A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
- Item Length
- 11in
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- Earth Sciences / Geography, Physics / Astrophysics, Astronomy
- Item Width
- 8.3in
- Item Weight
- 21.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- IX, 219 Pages
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In 2004, it became obvious that Henry Hatfield's original atlas wasn't suitable for all current commercially-made amateur telescopes. Newtonian telescopes and astronomical refractors - for many years the only choice for amateurs - invert the observed image. The standard Hatfield Atlas therefore follows the IAU (International Astronomical Union) convention of having maps (and photographs) with South at the top and West on the left: an inverted image. However, the current ranges of Schmidt-Cassegrain and Maksutov telescopes - that's most of those manufactured by Meade, Celestron, and many others - don't invert the observed image but instead reverse it left-for-right. That's with North at the top and East on the left. Because of the way the human visual system works, it is almost impossible to mentally 'mirror-image' a map to compare it with the view through the eyepiece, so even turning an IAU-standard atlas upside-down doesn't help! This new SCT version of the Atlas solves this problem for observers. Identification of lunar features is made quick and easy. The new, digitally re-mastered second 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 - whilst 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 result is a The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas for 21st century amateur telescopes up to and beyond 12-inch aperture. It contains all the features that made the original so widely used: a combination of an index of all International Astronomical Union named primary lunarfeatures, and twelve chart areas help to locate any named lunar features of interest that can each be examined under typically five different states of illumination. Close ups of interesting features are also included. The new Atlas is supplemented by an introduction to its use, a short description of the digital re-mastering technique, and a completely new section describing lunar observing techniques. At the end of the atlas there is an index of all named features and crater diameters, along with a summary table of the dates and times that the original Hatfield images represent.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer New York
ISBN-10
1493938266
ISBN-13
9781493938261
eBay Product ID (ePID)
228945800
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas : Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other Sct Telescopes - A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Earth Sciences / Geography, Physics / Astrophysics, Astronomy
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
IX, 219 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11in
Item Width
8.3in
Item Weight
21.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Qb4-4.9
Edition Number
2
Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition: There are a plethora of books about lunar observation, this book caters to observers who have a popular Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (SCT) design or a Maksutov design. The bulk of the volume provides maps and figures for the moon in 16 sections. For each area, there are 16 images that show what the features look like when they are illuminated by the sun at different angles. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general audiences. (J. R. Kraus, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)", From the reviews of the second edition: "There are a plethora of books about lunar observation, this book caters to observers who have a popular Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (SCT) design or a Maksutov design. ... The bulk of the volume provides maps and figures for the moon in 16 sections. ... For each area, there are 16 images that show what the features look like when they are illuminated by the sun at different angles. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general audiences." (J. R. Kraus, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)
Table of Content
Publisher's Preface by John Watson.- Introduction.- Plates 1-16 (with charts).- Exposure date chart.- Lunar Observing Techniques.
Copyright Date
2014
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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