Photographic Atlas of the Moon

Kopal et al. Photographic Atlas of the Moon

(glossary entry)

Description

Landmark collection of high-resolution lunar photographs obtained at the Pic du Mid Observatory in France and presented and interpreted by scientists at the University of Manchester (UK).
 
 

Additional Information

• Contents:
  • Meet the Moon
    • Facts and Figures
    • The Moon - an Alien World
    • Radiation from the Moon and the Nature of the Lunar Surface
  • Photography of the Moon
  • Basic Data
  • Atlas of the Moon
  • List of Plates
  • Skeleton Map of the Moon by Antonín Rükl
  • Named Lunar Formations

• Contributions from the University of Manchester group are acknowledged in the legends to NASA's LAC maps.

• Superseded by A New Photographic Atlas integrating images taken from space (see Bibliography).

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

• Kopal, Zdeněk, Josef Klepešta, and Thomas W. Rackham. 1965. Photographic atlas of the moon. New York: Academic Press.
• Kopal, Zdeněk. 1971. A new photographic atlas of the moon. New York: Taplinger

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