Calibration data for each plate of the on-line images is freely available for use with LTVT.Plates H20 and H23 (taken October 19, 1965) are from the next night on which observations were attempted after a week of bad seeing. Plates F6, B5 and G6 for the Consolidated Lunar Atlas were obtained on October 13th and Kuiper says half the plates obtained that night exhibited 0.2 arc-sec (400 m) resolution or better, as, he says, did some of the earlier plates.He claims the primary mirror was the most perfect optical surface of its size in existence, although that conclusion seems to be based on its performance under the relatively insensitive Foucault knife-edge test. Kuiper was quite proud both of the short construction time and that good results were obtained from the start. This Progress Report by Gerard Kuiper indicates that construction took 2 years, and lunar photography began on October 8, 1965, less than four months after the first star tests on June 18th.The story of the 61-inch telescope is told in a number of LPL publications.The text and plates from the Consolidated Lunar Atlas are available on-line at the LPI website.
The smallest features resolved are said to be in the range of about 1 km on the Moon. Naval Observatory, as well as a few taken with the Lick and Yerkes telescopes.
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Most of the plates reproduced in the CLA were taken with it, but some (especially of the Full Moon) were taken with a similar telescope operated by the U.S. The Consolidated Lunar Atlas is essentially a remake of the Photographic Lunar Atlas with photos better than those available in 1960 and might be thought of as an effort to showcase results obtained with the LPL new NASA-funded 61-inch telescope at the Catalina Station at a time when many thought space-based photography had made such observations obsolete. The Rectified Lunar Atlas was the first supplement, and the Full Moon and low sun-angle photography of the Consolidated Lunar Atlas completed the project. It is actually part of a larger work which began with Kuiper's Photographic Lunar Atlas (1960), sometimes referred to as the USAF Lunar Atlas (Civil Edition).
But if you want the sharpest/most detailed images you can get the most recent edition in which all the photographs have been digitally 'remastered.' I have the SCT version which flips the images for telescopes with diagonals, so you can get whichever version matches your view.Įdited by lxr4345, 23 January 2021 - 10:48 PM.Description The Consolidated Lunar Atlas is one of several significant Earth-based photographic atlases of the Moon compiled and published in the 1960's and 1970's. I have found this to be tremendously helpful, it's remarkable how different the same area can look! The older editions use the original film photographs and I happen to love the look of the film grain. It divides the moon into 16 charts and for each chart it has several photographs showing the area in different lighting conditions. To OP's questions: The Rukl atlas is great indeed, but I also really like the Hatfield Atlas. That's not nothing but it sure seems a lot more reasonable than $600! But it seems that, for one reason or another, the bottom fell out of the market and now they're going for ~$90. When I started looking for one this past summer, I couldn't find any for less than $600. The trick is finding one at a reasonable price in good condition.
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