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The selected photographs were taken at five observatories, Mount Wilson, Lick, McDonald, Yerkes, and Pic du Midi. The purpose of the Atlas is to present the surface record of the moon as shown on the best photographs now available. The “Introduction and Summary” for the atlas states, According to NASA, “Kuiper (1905-1973) is regarded by many as the father of modern planetary science” (interestingly, the photo of Kuiper on the NASA page that was the source of this quote shows him holding what appears to be the Photographic Lunar Atlas). The “Kuiper Belt” of small objects orbiting beyond Neptune is named for him (Pluto is a Kuiper Belt object-the first such object to be discovered). Kuiper’s name is likely familiar to many Sacred Space Astronomy readers. It was published in 1960 by the University of Chicago Press.

#Moon atlas kupier full#

It was a big box, full of high-quality pictures of the moon. Nothing catches the eye like Big Stuff, and perhaps the most prominent Big Thing on the library shelves was a huge book that said on the binding, “Photographic Lunar Atlas: Edited by Gerard P. There were so many cool things, sometimes it was hard to focus on a single one.

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One could even consider the photographs as art and the charts as maps.Last month I (Chris Graney) spent a couple of weeks at the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo, and while there I had a key to the library! This is part of a series of short posts ( click here for the series) on the cool things that are on the shelves there. Note on terminology: photographs and charts are differentiated here as follows - photographs are the original representations of the moon, in black and white, and without the overlay of interpretive graphics and text charts are those same base images, in blue and white, mediated by overlaid interpretive graphics and text. The Rectified lunar atlas contains 'a series of high-quality photographs of the lunar surface as it would appear if viewed from above' (Introduction). In the Orthographic atlas of the moon, 'the most representative photographs of each of the 44 fields or provinces into which the visible lunar surface was divided in the Photographic lunar atlas are reproduced, supplied with the standard orthographic grid. 14058.000), and the Rectified lunar atlas : Supplement two in 1963, by the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, United States Air Force (see Pub List No. (Lacks sets A1 and F1.) According to the Introduction of the Photographic lunar atlas: 'The purpose of this Atlas is to present the surface record of the moon as shown on the best photographs now available.' Two supplemental volumes were published subsequently: the Orthographic atlas of the moon : Supplement one in 1961 by the University of Arizona Press (see Pub List No. Housed within a box enclosure, these photographs appear in alphabetized sets separated by tabs, beginning with the Introduction, which includes Photographs and Charts 1-11, and followed by: A2-A7 (each numbered set includes parts a-d), B1-B8 (a-d), C1 (a-f), C2-C7 (a-f), C8 (a-f), D1 (a-f), D2-D7 (a-d), D8 (a-f), E1-E8 (a-d), F2-F7 (a-d), and S1-S35. Of these, 94 are from Mount Wilson 63, Lick 52, McDonald 41, Yerkes and 31, Pic du Midi. The totals are therefore 230 sheets and 281 photographs. It is accompanied by a text booklet, which includes metrics: The main body of the Atlas has 184 sheets containing 212 photographs the Introduction contains 11 sheets with 5 photographs, the Supplements 35 sheets with 63 photographs.

The Photographic lunar atlas was published in 1960 by The University of Chicago Press.