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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| "Magnificent desolation" | |
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| An orbiting rock-ball | |
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| Phases and eclipses | |
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| Solar eclipses | |
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| Gravity and tides | |
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| More about the motions of the Moon - libration | |
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| Co-ordinates on the surface of the Moon | |
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| Occultations | |
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| The Moon through the looking glass | |
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| The Moon in focus | |
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| The pioneering selenographers | |
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| Telescopes and drawing boards | |
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| What type of telescope do you need? | |
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| How big a telescope do you need? | |
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| So, what telescope should I spend my money on? | |
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| Eyepiece characteristics | |
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| Specific eyepiece types and magnification | |
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| Making the best of what you have | |
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| Drawing the Moon | |
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| The Moon in camera | |
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| Some basic principles of CCD astrocameras and digital cameras | |
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| Practical CCD astrocameras and digital cameras | |
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| The imaging area of a CCD camera when used on your telescope, or with an attached camera lens | |
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| Image scale using the supplied lenses on a '35 mm format' DSLR | |
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| Practical lunar photography through the telescope - at the principal focus | |
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| The potential resolution of detail in the image | |
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| Enlarging the telescope's primary image | |
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| Image processing | |
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| Stacking up the Moon | |
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| The Moon and your domestic video camera | |
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| The benefits of stacking selected images | |
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| Manually stacking individual frames | |
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| The webcam revolution | |
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| Your webcam and computer | |
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| The webcam's first night on your telescope | |
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| Stacking the images using RegiStax | |
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| Processing the stacked image in RegiStax | |
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| Striving for the best results | |
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| The physical Moon | |
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| The first lunar scouts | |
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| Men on the Moon | |
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| The post-Apollo Moon | |
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| Not green cheese but... | |
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| Genesis of the Moon | |
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| The Moon's structure | |
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| The evolution of the Moon - a brief overview | |
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| Lunar chronology | |
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| Filling in the details | |
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| Lunarware | |
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| Out-of-print books | |
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| Books currently in print | |
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| Printed maps, charts and atlases | |
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| Some useful website addresses concerning equipment and techniques | |
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| Consolidated Lunar Atlas, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas, Apollo Image Atlas and Ranger photographs online | |
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| Clementine, Lunar Prospector and SMART-1 images and data online | |
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| Virtual Moon Atlas | |
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| Lunar ephemerides | |
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| Key map for Chapter 8 | |
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| 'A to Z' of selected lunar landscapes | |
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| Agarum, Promontorium | |
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| Albategnius | |
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| Alpes, Vallis | |
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| Alphonsus | |
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| Apenninus, Montes | |
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| Ariadaeus, Rima | |
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| Aristarchus | |
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| Aristoteles | |
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| Bailly | |
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| Bullialdus | |
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| Cassini | |
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| Clavius | |
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| Copernicus | |
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| Crisium, Mare | |
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| Endymion | |
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| Fra Mauro | |
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| Furnerius | |
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| 'Gruithuisen's lunar city' | |
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| Harbinger, Montes | |
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| Hevelius | |
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| Hortensius | |
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| Humorum, Mare | |
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| Hyginus, Rima | |
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| Imbrium, Mare | |
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| Janssen | |
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| Langrenus | |
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| Maestlin R | |
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| Messier | |
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| Moretus | |
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| Nectaris, Mare | |
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| Neper | |
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| Pitatus | |
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| Plato | |
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| Plinius | |
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| Posidonius | |
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| Pythagoras | |
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| Ramsden | |
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| Regiomontanus | |
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| Russell | |
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| Schickard | |
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| Schiller | |
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| Sirsalis, Rimae | |
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| 'Straight Wall-(Rupes Recta) | |
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| Theophilus | |
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| Torricelli | |
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| Tycho | |
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| Wargentin | |
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| Wichmann | |
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| Webcam gallery | |
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| TLP or not TLP? | |
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| The mystery unfolds | |
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| Categories of TLP | |
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| The mystery continues | |
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| What might be the cause(s) of TLP? | |
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| Possible causes of bogus TLP | |
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| TLP observing programme | |
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| Telescope collimation | |
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| Field-testing a telescope's optics | |
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| Polar alignment | |
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| Index | |