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The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes: A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
Anthony Charles . Ed(S): Cook
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Description for The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes: A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
paperback. Designed for Schmidt-Cassegrain and Maksutov telescopes, this atlas makes it easy to locate International Astronomical Union named primary lunar features. It shows different angles of illumination and includes comparative libration images of the lunar limb. Editor(s): Cook, Anthony Charles. Num Pages: 228 pages, 186 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGG; PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210. Weight in Grams: 581.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781493938261
SKU
V9781493938261
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About Anthony Charles . Ed(S): Cook
Anthony Charles Cook, Ph.D., FBIS, FRAS, is both an amateur astronomer and a professional lunar and planetary cartographer. He has worked with many leading planetary cartography research groups in the UK, Germany, and the United States. He produced a planet-wide digital elevation model (DEM) of the Moon in the year 2000, and this was used by the European Space Agency ... Read more
Reviews for The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes: A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition
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 ... Read more