Exploring the moon through binoculars

[Stu]

This seems an appropriate place to post, hopefully!

I picked up four old astronomy books recently for very little money and really enjoyed reading them. I found it helped me to understand just how far we have come in a relatively short space of time.

As a result, I hit the buy button on this nice (and cheap) book which arrived very promptly today. It is in excellent condition, with some lovely old lunar images in it.  What made it very personal was the finding of a date written inside of 28th December 1969. I was just over 20 days old at the time

[Alan White]

Stu

These books can be a great read and as you note an interesting way of seeing how far astronomy and knowledge of space has come within our own lifetimes.
I was born in 1966, so measure time in a similar frame to yourself.

[Peter Drew]

The Moon was recently discovered when I was born.  

[Stu]

2 minutes ago, Peter Drew said:

The Moon was recently discovered when I was born.  

 

[xtreemchaos]

I was about before it was born , the book I mean, but mind you bits of me was around before, last time I was stardust ,you know when that big bangy thing was. . charl.

[Dave In Vermont]

Anyone run across this behemoth on the web: Photographic Lunar Atlas for Moon Observers - Kwok C. Pau? It has 970+ pages of photos from many of the early probes and other survey-craft people sent up there. In other words - images that belong freely to all the taxpayers.

I've never seen it up until I found same floating about freely on a lunar-astronomy website awhile ago. That's why I'm curious about it.

Dave

 

 

[paulastro]

It is a nice book Stu.  I've had a copy for a long time, in fact probably since 1969 - I was more than 20 days old! 

A happy birthday to you in about three weeks time Stu. 

[laowhoo]

On 7/23/2017 at 14:54, Dave In Vermont said:

Anyone run across this behemoth on the web: Photographic Lunar Atlas for Moon Observers - Kwok C. Pau? It has 970+ pages of photos from many of the early probes and other survey-craft people sent up there. In other words - images that belong freely to all the taxpayers.

I've never seen it up until I found same floating about freely on a lunar-astronomy website awhile ago. That's why I'm curious about it.

Dave

 

 

Dave in Vermont,

You sent me looking and found a link to it here at SGL

DLing as I type. TY!