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A Photographic Guide
Charles J. Byrne
ISBN: 9780387732053
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: 2008
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The far side of the Moon was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned up by today's computer technology.
The far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today's computer technology. Byrne's superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.
| ISBN | 0387732055 | | Pages | 232 | | ISBN13 | 9780387732053
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | | Weight (grammes) | 830 | | Imprint | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | | Published in | New York, NY | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series | | Publication date | 16 Nov 2007 | | Height (mm) | 280 | | Library of Congress | QB | | Width (mm) | 216 | | DEWEY | 523.30222 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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| 1 | | The Far Side of the Moon | | 1 | | 2 | | The Spacecraft Missions and Images | | 5 | | 3 | | The History of the Moon and its Features | | 10 | | 4 | | Regions of the Far Side | | 14 | | 5 | | Nomenclature and Conventions of this Book | | 16 | | 6 | | The Western Far Side Region: Earth-rise, Tsiolkovskiy, Gagarin, and the Mendeleev Basin | | 18 | | 7 | | The Korolev Basin Region | | 51 | | 8 | | The South Pole-Aitken Basin and the South Polar Region | | 60 | | 9 | | The Northwestern Far Side Region: The Moscoviense Basin | | 94 | | 10 | | The Eastern Far Side Region: Birkhoff to Hertzsprung | | 124 | | 11 | | The North Polar Far Side Region | | 160 | | 12 | | The Orientale Limb Region | | 172 | | 13 | | The Near Side Megabasin | | 194 | | | | Glossary | | 201 | | | | References | | 203 | | App. A | | Cleaning the Scanning Artifacts from Lunar Orbiter Photos | | 204 | | | | General Index | | 207 | | | | Index of Annotated Features | | 209 | | | | Index of Far Side Features that are not Annotated | | 213 | | | | Index of Photographs | | 215 |
Aus den Rezensionen: "... Tatsachlich dominieren in diesem Buch die Bilder der funf Lunar-Orbiter-Sonden ... Alle Bilder in diesem Buch sind auf der beigelegten CD-ROM enthalten. Der Autor nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise zu den geologisch interessantesten Platzen der Mondruckseite. ... Mit diesem Buch hat der Beobachter die Gelegenheit, die Randgebiete unverzerrt zu studieren und kann das im Fernrohr gesehene Bild mit den lokalen Gegebenheiten vergleichen und interpretieren. Das Buch ist warmstens zu empfehlen und sollte in keiner Bibliothek eines Raumfahrtfans oder Mondbeobachters fehlen." (TILMANN ALTHAUS, in: Sterne und Weltraum, July/2009, Issue 7, S. 109)  Be the first to write a customer review
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