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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Hoffmeister LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Hoffmeister%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Hoffmeister Apollo Images]<br /> - '''Hoffmeister''' was also captured on several of Apollo 16's oblique north looking ''Fairchild'' metric/mapping frames, such as [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS16/M/0741.jpg AS16-M-0741], which shows '''Hoffmeister''' near the central part of the curved horizon.<br /> Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br /> | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Hoffmeister LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Hoffmeister%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Hoffmeister Apollo Images]<br /> - '''Hoffmeister''' was also captured on several of Apollo 16's oblique north looking ''Fairchild'' metric/mapping frames, such as [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS16/M/0741.jpg AS16-M-0741], which shows '''Hoffmeister''' near the central part of the curved horizon.<br /> Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br /> | ||
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Revision as of 16:26, 15 April 2018
Contents
Hoffmeister
| Lat: 15.2°N, Long: 136.9°E, Diam: 45 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
left: Clementine . right: LROC
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- Hoffmeister was also captured on several of Apollo 16's oblique north looking Fairchild metric/mapping frames, such as AS16-M-0741, which shows Hoffmeister near the central part of the curved horizon.
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
(LAC zone 66A2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
Cuno Hoffmeister (February 2, 1892 – January 2, 1968) was a German astronomer. Hoffmeister founded the Sonneberg Observatory and discovered approximately 10,000 variable stars and several asteroids. He also co-discovered comet C/1959 O1. The asteroids 1726 Hoffmeister and 4183 Cuno are named in his honor.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Cuno Hoffmeister in popular scientific literature:
In Burnham's Celestial Handbook:
Page 184; the discovery of the pulsating variable star CY Aquarii (1934).
Page 1541; the discovery of the peculiar variable star FG Sagittae (1943).
Cuno Hoffmeister in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- Page 350 in Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- Confirmation of Outer Atmosphere Assymetry postulated to explain the False Zodiacal Light (E.R.Hope, Nature, 1961).
- Page 52 in Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, and Related Luminous Phenomena (1982) :
- Investigations on Bright Night Sky and Luminous Bands (Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 1952).
