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Old July 1st 04, 09:57 AM
Malcolm
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Default Best lunar atlas (BOOK) under $60?

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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