Lunar observers Part 3

Lunar observers and photographers (and illustrators - selenographers)

Part 3: M to R

Part 1: A to F
Part 2: G to L
Part 4: S to Z

M
MacLear, (LPOD).
Madler, Johann Heinrich (1794-1874).
Makolkin, Dmitry (LPOD).
Malapert, Charles (1581-1630).
Mallmann, Frederic (LPOD).
Manley, Ron (-Sky and Telescope- magazine).
Mansbridge, David (-Astronomy- magazine).
Maresh, Janet (M.A.S.).
Mariner-10 (moon fly-by).
Marshal, Kevin (Torricelli B TLP, further alerts).
Martens, Medard (see: Tony Dethier's MAANMONOGRAFIEEN, V.V.S. 1989).
Matsui, M. (N°95 - Contributions from Kwasan observatory, 1960).
Mattingly, Ken (Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, Apollo 16 astronaut).
Maw (this could be Dr. W.H.Maw, the observer of the small reddish spot in South on the 15th of June 1913) (the name Maw is also mentioned on page 219 of Harold Hill's A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings; at crater Vendelinus) (and in T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 1, page 163).
Maxson, Paul (LPOD).
Mayer, Tobias (1723-1762).
McCabe, Frank (LPOD contributor).
Mc.Connell, Jim (LPOD).
Mc.Connell, John C. (LPOD).
Mc.Donald, Thomas Logie (1902-1973, Scottish selenographer).
Mc.Farland, John (LPOD).
McIntosh, Patrick (-Sky and Telescope- magazine; Observer's Page).
McCurdy, Bruce (RASC Isabel Williamson Lunar Observing Certificate)
Mellan, Claud.
Mengoli, Giorgio (LPOD).
Meredith, Cliff (Philip's moon observer's guide).
Messina, Daniel (-Astronomy- magazine).
Metcalfe, Jack (-Astronomy- magazine).
Metsavainio, J.P. (LPOD).
Michaelis, Max (Gas-lens telescope, -Sky and Telescope- august 1992, pages 130/131).
Middlehurst, Barbara (Transient Lunar Phenomena, TLP).
Mitchell, Edgar (Edgar Dean Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut).
Mitchell, Geoff (LPOD).
Miyamoto, Sh. (N°95 - Contributions from Kwasan observatory, 1960).
Mobberley, Martin (Torricelli B TLP).
Molesworth, capt. (LPOD).
Mollise, Rod (Sky Insight).
Montanari, Geminiano (1633-1687).
Moore, Elliot (imaged moon with 40' Yerkes in 1960's).
Moore, John (LPOD contributor, Moon-Wiki contributor).
Moore, Patrick (B.B.C.; The Sky At Night).
Moreno, Oscar Canales (LPOD).
Moreux, Abbé Theophile.
Morozov, Konstantin (LPOD contributor, member of the Astronominsk team).
Mort, Greg (-Sky and Telescope- magazine).
Moseley, T.J.C.A. (Gassendi TLP). This could be Terence James Cecil Arthur Moseley (1946-2008), but I have to search more info.
Mosher, Jim (LPOD).
Muller, Maria Clara (1676-1707; daughter of G.C.Eimmart, wife of J.H.Muller).
Murray, J.B. (LPOD).
Murray, John (Philip's moonmap, 2003).

N
Nash, Dave (Sky Insight).
Nasmyth, James (1808-1890).
Neison, Edmund (1851-1938).
Nojima, Sadao (-Sky and Telescope- magazine).
Nomblot, Bernard (LPOD).
North, David (Hitchhiker's guide to the moon).
North, Gerald (book -Observing The Moon-).
Nozomi (Japanese moonprobe).
Nyberg, Hans (LPOD).

O
Oates, Michael (Manchester Astronomical Society).
Olivetti, (LPOD)(see also: Lazzarotti, P.).
Osypowski, Tom (and Pope, Tom)(-Sky and Telescope- march 1993).

P
Paluzie, (Spanish selenographer).
Panagiotis, Nikolakakos (LPOD contributor, Flying over Tycho)
Parker, Donald (-Astronomy- magazine).
Parsons, Lawrence. 4th Earl of Rosse. (see LPOD Early Drawings).
Paterson, Bob (Philip's moon observer's guide).
Patigny, (J.D.Cassini's assistant, with Leclerc,).
Pau, K.C. (LPOD).
Peach, Damian (LPOD).
Peck, Akkana (Hitchhiker's guide to the moon).
Peiresc, Nicolas De (1580-1637).
Perez, Jeremy (LPOD).
Perez-Suarez, David (LPOD).
Perry, Thomas R. (-Sky and Telescope- magazine).
Peters, Bill (Torricelli B TLP; further alerts).
Petersen, Klaus (ALPO Lunar Section).
Pettenpaul, Oliver (LPOD).
Philburn, Rob (M.A.S.).
Phillips, Jim (LPOD).
Pickering, William Henry. Despite the fact that W.H.Pickering's "odd" lunar observations and descriptions of so-called "insect swarms" at and near craters such as Eratosthenes were (and are) seen as some kind of "madman's disease", we should keep in mind that newly discovered terrestrial lifeforms (extremophiles) are capable of living in very hostile environment, such as space and direct cosmic radiation! If cometary nuclei or small asteroids contain possible quantities of some sort of interplanetary extremophiles, then...
Pilz, Bob (LPOD).
Pope, Tom (and Osypowski, Tom)(-Sky and Telescope- march 1993).
Porthouse, William (M.A.S.).
Povlick, Tim (LPOD).
Praet, Marnix (Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, V.V.S.).
Presnyakov, Pavel (LPOD).
Price, Fred W. (-The Moon Observer's Handbook-).
Price, L.H. (-Astronomy- magazine).
Puiseux, P. (1855-1928)(see also: Loewy, M.).
Pujic, Zac (LPOD).

Q

R
Rackham, Thomas W. (1919-2001).
Radwest (Nexstar 6SE)
Rae, W.L. (H.Hill's -A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings-, p.102).
Ranger (series of unmanned lunar spacecraft, made the first close-up photographs of lunar dimple craterlets).
Reade, J.B.
Reese, (American selenographer).
Reggio, Godfrey (American director of experimental documentary films such as Koyaanisqatsi in which a wonderful sequence is seen of a close-up'd FULL MOON, rising above a skyscraper).
Renart,
Rheita, Anton Schyrle of Rhaetia (1597-1660).
Ribeiro, Jose (LPOD).
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671).
Riedesel, Hubertus (LPOD).
Ringsdore, P. (Gassendi TLP).
Ringwald, Fred (LPOD).
Rix, Erika (LPOD).
Roach, Edward (Lunar and Planetary Imaging).
Roberts, Harry (Sidney City Skywatchers).
Rochette, Martin (Sky insight).
Rodriguez, Heliomarzio (TLP at Promontorium Olivium, february the 20th, 1990)(-Astronomy- october 1990, page 8).
Roel, Eric (LPOD).
Roosa, Stuart (Stuart "Stu" Allen Roosa, Apollo 14 astronaut).
Rosolina, Michael (LPOD).
Rouse, Jim (-Astronomy- magazine).
Russell, John (1745-1806)(1795 painting The Face Of The Moon).
Russell, Sally (LPOD).
Rudaux, Lucien (pioneer of planetary and lunar space art).
Rukl, Antonin (1932-2016) (author of: HAMLYN ATLAS OF THE MOON).
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris (1816-1892; early lunar photographer)(Whitaker: page 142d).
Ryan, Fred (LPOD).

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