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"Apollo Over the Moon" by Harold Masusky & Farouk El-Baz
Online version of one of NASA's books on lunar geology. Great pictures to download and print!
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/contents.htm |
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"Consolidated Lunar Atlas" by Kuiper, et al
Online version of another venerable lunar atlas.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/menu.html |
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"Exploring the Moon" with Charles Wood
Sky & Telescope columnist. Soon to be moon resource book author.
http://www.space.edu/moon/ |
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"Exploring the Moon", Lunar & Planetary Institute
Great compilation of resources! Lots to explore! If you want to learn about the geology, etc., here's a good place to start.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/lunar_missions.html |
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Akkana Peck's Astronomy Page
"The mother of all" solar system amateur resources.
http://www.shallowsky.com/astro.html |
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American Lunar Society
Amateur group dedicated to lunar observing.
http://otterdad.dynip.com/als/index.html |
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Apollo Image Atlas
Link to pictures taken by the various manned lunar missions.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/apollo/index.html |
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Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
Online resource on the exploration of the moon. Includes transcripts of the Apollo flights extensively corrected/commented on by the actual astronauts.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ |
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Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers (ALPO)
Amateur astronomer based organization. If you're not a member, please consider joining!
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/ |
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BAA lunar section
British Astronomical Association lunar section, useful data for planning your observations
http://mysite.freeserve.com/lunar/index.html |
fernando_ferri
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Chuck Wood's Moon
Chuck Wood expands his lunar empire!
http://cwm.lpod.org/ |
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Clear Sky Clock
Set by location to see how your observing will be...
http://www.pobox.com/~clearskyclock/csk |
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Clementine Lunar Image Browser
US Navy resource on the Clementine mission. Interactive web resource.
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin/clementine/clib/multires.pl?clickres=5&ox=0&oy=0&res=4&size=256&latitude=0&longitude=0&submit=Use+Lat%2FLong&sensor=UVVIS&filter=415_nm |
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Cloud Forecasts
Cloud forecasts, variable time setting, limited coverage but still useful.
http://www.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/htmls/astro_e.html |
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Earth & Moon Viewer
Online map and other resources.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html |
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Exploring the Moon: NASA Teacher's Guidebook
NASA guide for upper elementary/high school teachers. Various formats available for printing/download.
http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/EP-306.html |
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Geologic History of the Moon by Don Wilhelms
The "Holy Grail" of lunar geology books. A massive download, but worth the invested time!
http://cps.earth.northwestern.edu/GHM/ |
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Geologic Lunar Research Group
Lunar observations several projects
http://digilander.iol.it/gibbidomine |
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Googol's Lunar Calendar
What phase are we in? In case you've forgotten...
http://www.googol.com/moon/ |
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Hans Anger's Palm-OS SW
PalmOS software, including some excellent tools for lunar observers.
http://www.astro-metrics.com/ |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
A cooperative compilation of information about observing the moon
http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/ |
akkphht
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JPL's HORIZONS System
Ephemerides of over 71000+ solar system objects.
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html |
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Longitude/Latitude via Zipcodes
Useful for those non-GPS-equipped and similar scopes that need location information.
http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm |
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Lunar & Planetary Institute
Institute homepage. Good starting point for lunar resources.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi.html |
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Lunar Orbiter Online Atlas
Digital version of another classic NASA resource. Cheaper than the print copies!
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/ |
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Lunar Prospector Homepage
While the Prospector is no longer in operation (!), the home page contains excellent resources.
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/ |
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NASA's Astronomical Data Center
Amateur-oriented web resource from NASA. Some useful items, such as lunar occulations link.
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc_amateurs.html |
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NOAA Radar Tracks
NOAA weather information, can be localized (USA only, sorry!)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ |
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RASC's Astronomical SW Links
Links to RASC-member SW including Alister Ling's Lunar Calculator.
http://www.edmontonrasc.com/software/software.html |
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Saber Does The Stars
Astrolinks and articles by Stephen Saber
http://www.astronomyblogs.com/member/saberscorpx/ |
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Sky Publishing Corporation
Publishers and distributors of a number of moon-observing resources. And someday, we may actually see Rukl's Atlas from them!!!
http://skyandtelescope.com/ |
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Tom Polakis' Eyepiece Calculator
Useful online application to help you make the best of your EP collection!
http://www.psiaz.com/polakis/eyepiece.html |
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Transient Lunar Phenomena
Images with 6" refractor updated several times per momth
http://www.angelfire.com/space2/robertspellman/ |
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Transient Lunar Phenomena
An observatory dedicated to patrol the moon for meteorite impacts,lunar light rays possible geologic and electrostatic phenomena
http://www.geocities.com/xetor_2000/ |
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U.A.I's Lunar Section
Amateur group dedicated to lunar observing.
http://www.uai.it/sez_lun/english.htm |
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USGS Digital Maps of the Planets
Includes Adobe Acrobat files of lunar map quadrants...makes you wish for a really **big** color printer!
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/GEOMAP/DIGGEOL/digeol.htm |
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USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
The official "rules" for names on the moon. Good general list of features as well.
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/moon/moonTOC.html |
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USNO Time Calculator
Universal time via the internet, for those who don't have shortwave access!
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html |
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Virtual Lunar Atlas
Patrick Chevalley's Virtual Lunar Atlas (freeware).
http://astrosurf.com/avl/UK_index.html |
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Volcanoes on the Moon
"Volcano World's" paper on vulcanism on the moon. Has some interesting areas for amateurs to explore.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/Overview.html |
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