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- Lunar and Planetary Institute's list of lunar atlases, including the very detailed Air Force Charts
- Moon Phases has two excellent photographic moon maps as well as other lunar information
- Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
- Sky Publishing's Moon Map A reasonable map of the major features, but no minor features. If that URL is broken, try this article.
- Observatorio ARVAL - Moon Map Comparable resolution to Skypub's map, more features labelled but somewhat harder to read
- Moon-Lite Atlas Antonio Cidadao's extensive photographic atlas. Not complete yet, but very useful, with wide-field shots showing location of the named feature and close-up detail images.
- The Fournier Lunar Atlas Similar to the Moon-Lite -- nice images showing each area of the moon under various lighting conditions.
- Motorpark/Mondkarte A scanning of the Rand-McNally moon map?
- Major Lunar Maria
- Die interaktive Mondkarte (In German) Labels the Maria, a few craters, or all the Apollo landing sites.
Other lunar observing pages on the net:
- Inconstant Moon A similar page to this one, which lists features day by day.
- Bill Arnett's Lunar Info for Amateur Astronomers
- A Day in the Life of the Moon by Jane Houston. Nice discussion of major features appearing at each day of the lunar cycle.
- Geologic Lunar Research Group
- The Lunascan Project looks for transient lunar phenomena (TLP)
- The Lure of Lunar Domes
- Roger's Lunar Page Good discussion of Transient Lunar Phenomena, with a chart showing the locations of features with a history of TLP
- Transient Lunar Phenomena Collect observations of TLP here -- observers can help verify each other's observations
- Our Moon ALPO Lunar Selected Area Monitoring Program; the individual pages are also linked under their appropriate Rukl pages here.
- Robinson Lunar Observatory Lots of useful moon links, including predictions of lunar sunrise/sunset rays and a list of books on lunar sciences
- Lunar Observing Challenges by Dennis Borgman
- The Lunar Web Site from Texas Connection.com
- Exploring the Moon from the Lunar and Planetary Institute -- includes nice explanation of Lunar Impact Crater Geology and Structure
- Observation of the Moon by Antonio Cidadao
- I Raggi Lunari Nice discussion of lunar rays, in Italian
- Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee Excellent discussion of lunar librations and phase changes over a lunation and a year.
Newsletters and Organizations:
- The Lunar Observer, an independant newsletter for students of the moon
- ALPO, Lunar Section
- The American Lunar Society's old link. Their new link is apparently not a full-time IP connection. Their online publication is Selenology
- The Astronomical League's Lunar Club Certificate
- British Astronomical Association's Lunar Section
- my own
- Lunar Sketches of Rich Handy Beautiful work, lots of conte crayon on black paper
- Jane Houston's sketches
- The Manchester Astro Soc. has a nice collection of lunar sketches, including some by the legendary Harold Hill
- Tracy Wilson, including a How to Sketch a Crater tutorial
- Brent Hutto's Moon Page
- Please mail me more sketch links!
Lunar images on the web:
- Named Lunar Formations image browser
- Clementine Lunar Image Browser Satellite images of any area on the moon (including the far side).
- PDS Lunar Image Atlas Another lunar image browser, also using the Clementine data
- USGS Clementine More images from Clementine, including an amazing false-color topographic map
- Bestimmung der Hohe von Mondbergen gegenuber der Umgebung German site with a moon map program
- Thierry Legault has some stunning high-resolution CCD images of the moon
- Robin Casady's excellent lunar images
- Antonio Cidadao has some wonderful images
- Quail Hollow Observatory where Richard Kowalski is working on lunar mosaics and a large format lunar observer's guide which can be used at the eyepiece.
- Lunar Observatory "Alpha"
- Philipp Salzgeber has some nice moon images, including an animated gif demonstrating the effects of unsteady seeing
- Astrosurf SAP -- On the Moon A wonderful collection of moon shots by Pierre-Olivier Pujat and Jean-Philippe Cazard -- don't miss the "Full Lunar Terminator" mosaic
- Rod Mollise' video stills Amazing what he does with modest equipment!
- More lunar shots with modest video equipment
Moon Software
- Virtual Moon Atlas (Windows, free of charge and now also open source)
- MoonDock (OS X, free)
- Lunar Map Pro (Windows, non free)
- Lunar (Palm, share)
- Moon Phase (Palm, free)
- Moon Phase Calendar (Palm, free?)
- Moon Info! (Palm, share) also RPN moon calculations
- my Lunatic (Palm, free, no UI, just current ephemeris/libration data)
- my new colongitude program (Unix command line, open source)
Planetarium Programs with good moon support
- XEphem (Linux, free/share)
- Guide (Windows, pay)
- Starry Night (Mac and Windows, pay)
Lunar data
- Clementine Data Archive
- Ordering CLementine Data CDROMs
- Using the Clementine data CD in Guide 7.0
- Old Farmer's Almanac: Rise and Set times for the sun, moon, and planets
- Or, use the USNO's moonrise/set page
- Lunar Perigee and Apogee Calculator
- Full moon times for the next 200 years
- Dutch Occultation Association Free program for predicting occultations
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