Moongazing : Beginner's Guide to Exploring the Moon - Royal Observatory Greenwich

Moongazing

Beginner's Guide to Exploring the Moon

By: Royal Observatory Greenwich

Paperback | 1 November 2018

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Product Description

An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Includes detailed Moon maps and covers the history of lunar observation and exploration, the properties of the Moon, its origin and orbit. This is the ideal book for Moon observers covering essential equipment, and the key events to look out for.

Detailed advice is given on how to choose a telescope and how to capture the Moon in sketches.

Discover all you need to know about eclipses, blue moons, supermoons, conjunctions and occultations.

A comprehensive section covers astrophotography using lenses, telescopes, Smartphones, including video and how to process your images.

Comes with a photographic atlas of lunar features with plates and annotated maps.

A glossary of key terms, index of lunar features and software references are also provided.

About the Author

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is the home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World, making it the official starting point for each new day and year. It is also home to London's only planetarium, the Harrison timekeepers and the UK's largest refracting telescope. It runs the annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition.

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