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Any detailed lunar map recommendations?

Victor Boesen

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Victor Boesen

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13 minutes ago, Luna-tic said:

I use this one:https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualmoon/

 

12 minutes ago, Cornelius Varley said:

Virtual Moon Atlas

Will have a go at downloading this. Seems like just what I was looking for!

Thank you, and the two others who have also recommended some great maps!

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Knighty2112

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1 hour ago, Stu said:

I use MoonMap Pro on my phone, gives nice close up photo maps.

Moon Phase Photo Maps is also very handy, less detail but shows the main features on the terminator at the time.

 

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Is this app on iPhone Stu? I’m not seeing it if it is?

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Victor Boesen

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Well, I have just been out with my scope, and I had a look at the moon now and then and it was really interesting how new features and detail comes to live as time passes. One object that struck my eye was this almost "man-made" looking object almost looking like the mathematical "phi" aka the golden number (look it up if you have time, cause this actually also relates to spiral galaxies;-)

The feature can be seen in the bottom half of the screen, and it was a lot sharper in person.
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As a teaser to the "golden number" subject;-)
Billedresultat for the golden number in galaxies

Clear skies!

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Ruud

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Quickmap is excellent, the Virtual Moon Atlas is fine, but I love these maps

7 hours ago, Size9Hex said:

These maps are terrific too; https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/

I've had them in print for many years (Times Atlas of the Moon) and I'm really pleased to find them scanned (the pages in the Atlas are too big for a regular scanner). An example:

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The same area on Quickmap:

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On Quickmap you can zoom in very deep.

 

 

 

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I use MoonGlobeHD on my iPad and iPhone, its a really nice to use app, very interactive with lots of features. One of my favourite features of the app is that you can home in on a lunar feature and scroll the phase backwards and forwards to see how the the feature changes as the shadows move.  If you zoom out so you can see the whole disk and then start the date scrolling, you get a very nice illustration of libration, which was slightly different to what I had always thought! Some screen shots below....

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