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The Hatfield Lunar Atlas - Digitally Re-Mastered Edition (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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The Hatfield Lunar Atlas - Digitally Re-Mastered Edition (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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"The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" has become an amateur lunar observer's
bible since it was first published in 1968. A major update of the
atlas was made in 1998, using the same wonderful photographs that
Commander Henry Hatfield made with his purpose-built 12-inch (300
mm) telescope, but bringing the lunar nomenclature up to date and
changing the units from Imperial to S.I. metric This edition is
important since the fact is that modern telescope optics, digital
imaging equipment and computer enhancement can easily surpass what
was achieved with Henry Hatfield's 12-inch telescope and a film
camera. This limits the usefulness of the original atlas to visual
observing or imaging rather small amateur telescopes. The new,
digitally re-mastered edition vastly improves the clarity and
definition of the original photographs - significantly beyond the
resolution limits of the photographic grains present in earlier
atlas versions - while preserving the layout and style of the
original publications. This has been achieved by merging
computer-visualized Earth-based views of the lunar surface, derived
from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, with scanned copies
of Commander Hatfield's photographic plates, using the author's own
software. The results is a "The Hatfield Lunar Atlas" for 21st
century amateur telescopes up to and beyond 12-inch aperture.
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