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          Computer technology has empowered each of us to become a publisher. Alan Chu, a skilled observer and photographer
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        from Hong Kong, has made available his own <I>Photographic Moon Book</I>. Alan has taken more than 60 excellent
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        digital images of the Moon and has put them together in a pdf file that you can download and print out. I had
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        Kinkos (a national print shop in the USA) print out and spiral bind Alan's files and I now have another wonderful
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        Moon book! The <I>Photographic Moon Book</I> is 95 pages of photos (some NASA images and a few older drawings)
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        with descriptions of craters, and explanations of librations, terminator, eclipses, etc. There is also a detailed
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        and Jan 2004, and a tremendous amount of effort has been put into layout and design. When asked why he was
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        distributing this wonderful book for free Alan replied that he has benefited from other's free materials on the
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        web and he is pleased to put his own contribution online. He further says: <I>My present book is more like a "warmup
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        exercise" than a real lunar atlas. I hope that in future a higher resolution moon map can be published through
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        teamwork based on the editing experience I gained so far.</I> This is a remarkable accomplishment. Thank you, Alan
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[http://moonbook.hkas.org.hk/ Photographic Moon Book]</p>
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  <p class"story"> <b>Tomorrow's LPOD:</b> Say Hi to Hyginus</p>
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  <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Author & Editor:</b><br>
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      [mailto:chuck@observingthesky.org Charles A. Wood]</p>
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      <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>Technical Consultant:</b><br>
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      [mailto:anthony@perseus.gr Anthony Ayiomamitis]</p>
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      <p align="center" class="main_titles"><b>[mailto:webmaster@entropysponge.com Contact Webmaster]</b></p>
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      <a class="one" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html">Astronomy</a> | <a class="one" href="http://www.msss.com/">Mars</a> | <a class="one" href="http://epod.usra.edu/">Earth</a></p></td>
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Revision as of 15:35, 4 January 2015

An Amateur's Moon

An Amateur's Moon

February 24, 2004
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Image Credit: Alan Chu

An Amateur's Moon

Computer technology has empowered each of us to become a publisher. Alan Chu, a skilled observer and photographer from Hong Kong, has made available his own Photographic Moon Book. Alan has taken more than 60 excellent digital images of the Moon and has put them together in a pdf file that you can download and print out. I had Kinkos (a national print shop in the USA) print out and spiral bind Alan's files and I now have another wonderful Moon book! The Photographic Moon Book is 95 pages of photos (some NASA images and a few older drawings) with descriptions of craters, and explanations of librations, terminator, eclipses, etc. There is also a detailed description of how the images were taken and complete details for each one. The images were made between Feb 2000 and Jan 2004, and a tremendous amount of effort has been put into layout and design. When asked why he was distributing this wonderful book for free Alan replied that he has benefited from other's free materials on the web and he is pleased to put his own contribution online. He further says: My present book is more like a "warmup exercise" than a real lunar atlas. I hope that in future a higher resolution moon map can be published through teamwork based on the editing experience I gained so far. This is a remarkable accomplishment. Thank you, Alan Chu!

Related Links:
Photographic Moon Book

Tomorrow's LPOD: Say Hi to Hyginus

<img src="../../../MainPage/spacer.gif" width="640" height="1">

Author & Editor:
Charles A. Wood

Technical Consultant:
Anthony Ayiomamitis

Contact Webmaster

A service of:
<a class="one" href="http://www.observingthesky.org/">ObservingTheSky.Org</a>

Visit these other PODs:
<a class="one" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html">Astronomy</a> | <a class="one" href="http://www.msss.com/">Mars</a> | <a class="one" href="http://epod.usra.edu/">Earth</a>


 


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