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My interest in lunar observing has increased this year (might be
partly due to prolonged urban dwelling). Everyone says that Rukl's is the best, but it's still out of print and used copies cost a small fortune. Given this, are there any other moon atlas books worth considering? For the sake of this discussion let's not consider software (I already have Virtual Moon Atlas), useful as they are. There are 3 books that I've seen currently in print for sale on Amazon, they a Photographic Atlas of the Moon by S. M. Chong, Albert Lim, P. S. Ang http://tinyurl.com/349vx Atlas of the Lunar Terminator by John Westfall http://tinyurl.com/24fn3 The Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas by Jeremy Cook http://tinyurl.com/2ktaz I lean a little towards Hatfield simply because I used to have a copy of the original book "Amateur Astronomer's Photographic Lunar Atlas" by Hatfield back when I was a teenager in the mid-seventies. To be quite honest I can't remember how useful it was to me at the time. My main motive for buying it back then was that I liked his astrophotos (I remember a nice Orion Nebula pic that Hatfield took) that appeared in some of Patrick Moore's books like "Atlas of the Universe" (1969 ed.). Can anyone tell me their opinions on the above mentioned atlases, or any that I've overlooked (they need not be currently in print, just affordable if bought used, which is often how I like to purchase books)? Thank you. Malcolm |
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