Lunar Orbiter 5 - catalog of photographed features

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Lunar Orbiter 5:

A handy catalog of photographed features

Compiled by Danny Caes
  Additional research: Patricio Leon
 
 Lunar Orbiter 5's photographs are online in this page
  • Frames 5001 to 5004: ? (missing?)

- Moon's north western Far Side.

Poczobutt at centre of the photographed moon's orb (sunset terminator) (+ North Pole, Schwarschild, Plaskett, Roshdestvenskiy, Hermite, Birkhoff, Landau)
Of each frame, additional close-up images show:
h1: Rynin, Stefan, Wegener
h2: Coulomb, Ellison, Zsigmondy
h3: Mezentsev, Merrill, Niepce, Noether
- Moon's Far Side crescent (sunset terminator).

Of each frame, additional close-up images show:
h1: Grachev, Lowell, Montes Cordillera, Montes Rook
h2: Berkner to Leuschner region (Nobel at centre)
h3: Landau-Lorentz region
- Moon's Far Side ("lower half crescent").

021-h1: little bit of curved limb
021-h2: Schrodinger (oblique)
021-h3: Zeeman (lower left corner)
- Moon's Far Side (crescent), Lucretius to Zeeman region.

022-h1: Buffon/ Leavitt/ Fizeau/ Lippmann/ Mendel
022-h2: Houzeau/ Ellerman/ Gerasimovich/ Langmuir/ Brouwer/ Blackett
022-h3: Hertzsprung/ Michelson/ Lucretius/ Grachev/ Leuschner

  • Frame 5023: ? (missing?)

- Moon's Far Side (crescent), Landau to Hertzsprung region.

024-h1: Hertzsprung/ Michelson/ Lucretius/ Kolhorster
024-h2: Kovalevskaya/ Fersman/ Sternberg/ Leucippus
024-h3: Birkhoff to Landau region
- Moon's Far Side (crescent), Plaskett to Kovalevskaya region (Birkhoff at centre).

025-h1: Kramers to Perrine region/ Gullstrand/ Sarton/ Weber
025-h2: van 't Hoff/ Dyson/ Kramers
025-h3: Hippocrates/ Mezentsev/ Stebbins
- Moon's western Far Side (crescent), Hertszprung, Brouwer.

026-h1: Buffon to Lemaitre region
026-h2: Belopolsky to Brouwer region
026-h3: Hertzsprung - Ioffe region
- Distant Earth.

- Moon's Far Side (crescent), Birkhoff to Hertzsprung region (Kovalevskaya at centre).

028-h1: Hertzsprung
028-h2: Sanford to Fersman region
028-h3: Birkhoff to Charlier region
- Moon's Far Side (crescent), Rozhdestvensky to Kovalevskaya region (Birkhoff at centre).

029-h1: Carnot/ Fowler/ Schlesinger/ Esnault-Pelterie
029-h2: Birkhoff/ Stebbins
029-h3: Kirkwood/ Hippocrates
- Moon's Far Side (crescent), Apollo-Galois-Paschen-Vavilov.

030-h1: Apollo to Bhabha region
030-h2: Galois to Apollo to Stromgren region
030-h3: Hertzsprung to Korolev-Galois region/ Tsander/ Paschen

  • Frame 5031: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5032: ? (missing?)

- Moon's Near Side

  • Frames 5033, 5034, 5035, and 5036: Petavius
  • Frame 5037: ? (missing?).
  • Frame 5038: Dorsum Cayeux, Taruntius H, K, P, and the Messier/ Messier A couple (and bright retro-reflection)
  • Frame 5039: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5040: Stevinus. See LPOD An Unfamiliar Fresh Crater (Stevinus A)
  • Frame 5041: Messier and Messier A (and retro-reflection)
  • Frame 5042: Montes Secchi (and retro-reflection)

- Moon's Far Side (part of crescent), Oppenheimer to Minnaert region.

- Moon's Near Side

  • Frame 5044: region southwest of Secchi X (aka NASA's "Lost Crater").
  • Frame 5045: ? (missing?).
  • Frame 5046: ? (missing?).
  • Frames 5047 to 5051: Secchi X (aka "Lost Crater"), and part of Rima Messier.
  • Frame 5052: Maskelyne F (and retro-reflection).

- Moon's Far Side (part of crescent), Sommerfeld to Larmor region.

053-h1: Guillaume/ Winkler/ Ehrlich
053-h2: Debye/ Perkin/ Guillaume
053-h3: Tsinger/ Chappell/ Cooper

  • Frame 5054: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5055: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5056: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5057: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5058: ? (missing?)

- Moon's Near Side

  • Frame 5059: part of "Barbara Mesa" (upper left corner), and "Lonesome Mesa" (lower left).
  • Frames 5060 and 5061: enlargements of regions in Frame 5059.
  • Frame 5062: area between "Bob's Bend" (Maskelyne D) and Maskelyne F
  • Frame 5063: Censorinus and Censorinus A (the "SP-crater"), "Cape Bruce", Maskelyne A (Van Langren's "Wendelini")
  • Frame 5064: Apollo 11 site, Moltke, Ritter, Sabine (and retro-reflection)

- Moon's Far Side (part of crescent), Van de Graaff to Lyman region.

- Moon's Near Side

  • Frames 5066 to 5069: Clerke surrounded by Rimae Littrow, Dorsa Aldrovandi.
  • Frame 5070: Dawes.
  • Frames 5071 to 5074: Moltke and area north of it (Apollo 11 landing site; Statio Tranquillitatis)
  • Frames 5075 to 5078: Moltke and area north of it (Apollo 11 landing site; Statio Tranquillitatis)
  • Frame 5079: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5080 to 5083: Dionysius and the couple Ritter B + C
  • Frame 5084: Abulfeda and Catena Abulfeda

- Moon's northern Far Side (part of crescent), D'Alembert to Konstantinov region.

085-h1: Stearns/ Steno (+ region southwest of Stearns-Steno)
085-h2: Appleton/ Golovin
085-h3: Campbell/ Ley
- Moon's Near Side

  • Frames 5086 + 5089: Alexander and Calippus
  • Frame 5090 to 5093: Rimae Sulpicius Gallus
  • Frame 5094: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5095, 5096 and 5097: Hyginus and Rima Hyginus
  • Frames 5098 to 5101: Hipparchus' floor and a curious bunch of dome-like hillocks.
  • Frame 5102: Vallis Alpes (this photograph was reproduced on pages 236-237 in the National Geographic of February 1969; the article Awesome Views of the Forbidding Moonscape).

- Moon's northern Far Side (part of crescent), D'Alembert to Kohlschutter region.

103-h1: Nikolaev to Mare Moscoviense region (+ Titov).
103-h2: Wiener/ Von Neumann/ Nikolaev
103-h3: Campbell/ Pawsey/ Wiener/ Ley
- Moon's Near Side

  • Frames 5104 to 5107: Rima Hadley
  • Frames 5108 to 5115: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5116 to 5119: Alphonsus
  • Frames 5120 to 5123: Rima Bode II, Bode C, Bode E, Marco Polo C

- Moon's northeastern Far Side (part of crescent), Olivier to Komarov region.

124-h1: Feoktistov/ Mare Moscoviense
124-h2: Kurchatov/ Wiener
124-h3: Bridgman/ Pawsey/ Wiener
- Moon's Near Side

  • Frames 5125 to 5128: Tycho close-up (of which the first frame, 5125-med, was reproduced on page 234 in the National Geographic of February 1969; the splendid article Awesome Views of the Forbidding Moonscape).
  • Frames 5129 to 5132: Montes Alpes (east of Plato)
  • Frame 5133: area south of Eratosthenes
  • Frames 5134 to 5136: Eratosthenes
  • Frame 5137: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5138: The Fra Mauro/ Bonpland/ Parry junction
  • Frame 5139: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5140: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5141: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5142 to 5145: Stadius craterlets
  • Frame 5146: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5147: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5148: the dark-halo craterlet Copernicus H
  • Frame 5149: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5150 to 5157: Copernicus

- Moon's eastern Far Side (part of crescent), Compton to Vernadsky region.

158-h1: Kepinski
158-h2: Tesla/ Van Maanen
158-h3: Millikan/ H.G.Wells/ Becquerel

  • Frame 5159: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5160: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5161: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5162: ? (missing?)

- Moon's eastern Far Side (part of crescent), Compton to Kostinsky region.

163-h1: Hogg/ Innes
163-h2: H.G.Wells/ Cantor/ Tesla/ Kidinnu
163-h3: Millikan/ H.G.Wells

  • Frame 5164: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5165: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5166: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5167: ? (missing?)

- Moon's Near Side

  • Frame 5168: Vitello
  • Frames 5169 to 5176: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5177 to 5179: Gassendi
  • Frames 5179 and 5180: Gassendi A (Wilkins's "Clarkson")

- Moon's Far Side (part of crescent), Mare Humboldtianum to Polzunov region.

181-h1: Sumner/Szilard
181-h2: Sisakyan/ Catena Sumner
181-h3: Petrie

  • Frame 5182: ? (missing?)

- Moon's Near Side

  • Frame 5183: Gruithuisen domes (Gruithuisen Gamma/ Delta) and "Alfred Worden's catena" (the curious chain of teardrop-shaped craterlets near the concentric crater Gruithuisen K).
  • Frame 5184: ? (missing?)
  • Frame 5185: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5186 to 5188: Prinz
  • Frames 5194 to 5200: Aristarchus
  • Frame 5201: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5202 to 5205: Vallis Schroteri
  • Frames 5208 and 5209: Montes Agricola
  • Frame 5210: ? (missing?)
  • Frames 5211 to 5216: Domefield and rilles WNW of Marius


Bibliography

- Chriet Titulaer: Operatie Maan (W. Van Hoeve, Den Haag - 1969). An interesting book, made just after the manned lunar landing of Apollo 11. Full of orbital and surface photography performed by the Lunas, Zonds, Rangers, Lunar Orbiters, Surveyors, Apollo 8, and Apollo 10.
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, february 1969 (AWESOME VIEWS OF THE FORBIDDING MOONSCAPE; a nine-page portfolio of Lunar Orbiter photographs).
- Piero Leonardi: Volcanoes and impact craters on the Moon and Mars.
- J.E.Guest/ R.Greeley: Geology on the Moon.
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