An Amateur's Moon
Portfolio of lunar drawings and pictures




Alexander Vandenbohede
2004







Many Look, Few Observe
(Harold Hill, 1991)







Table of Contents


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Introduction
Introduction – Scope of the Book 1
Equipment and Techniques 2
Librations, Phases, Colongitude and the Sun’s position 6

Portfolio of lunar drawings and pictures
Colongitude 300-310 11
Colongitude 310-320 12
Colongitude 320-330 14
Colongitude 330-340 17
Colongitude 340-350 21
Colongitude 350-360 27
Colongitude 0-10 36
Colongitude 10-20 41
Colongitude 20-30 45
Colongitude 30-40 51
Colongitude 40-50 60
Colongitude 50-60 64
Colongitude 60-70 69
Colongitude 70-80 74
Colongitude 80-90 76
Colongitude 100-110 78
Colongitude 110-120 81
Colongitude 130-140 82
Colongitude 140-150 83
Colongitude 150-160 84

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What to do with lunar drawings and pictures
Solar Eclipses 86
Lunar Eclipses 88
Walking on the Moon 90
Mons Rümker 92
Clavius 94
Mädler 97
Copernicus 100
Mare Orientale 102
Determining lunar surface heights 105
A geologist’s Moon 111
Colour on the Moon 117
Phases of the Moon 134

Bibliography 153
End





Alexander the Great



Although named after the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, it’s a nice thought to consider this piece of Moon a little bit as ‘mine’. Alexander is a very old and battered walled plane on the border of Mare Serenitatis and Mare Imbrium just south of Eudoxus and Aristoteles.

avdenboh@yahoo.co.uk

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