Hitchhiker's Moon Links -- Other Sources for Lunar Information

My stuff:

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
• Shallow Sky mailing list

Outside links:

Moon maps on the WWW:

• Lunar and Planetary Institute's list of lunar atlases, including the very detailed Air Force Charts
• Moon Phases has two excellent photographic moon maps as well as other lunar information
• Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
• Consolidated Lunar Atlas
• Apollo Image Atlas
• Sky Publishing's Moon Map A reasonable map of the major features, but no minor features. If that URL is broken, try this article.
• Observatorio ARVAL - Moon Map Comparable resolution to Skypub's map, more features labelled but somewhat harder to read
• Moon-Lite Atlas Antonio Cidadao's extensive photographic atlas. Not complete yet, but very useful, with wide-field shots showing location of the named feature and close-up detail images.
• The Fournier Lunar Atlas Similar to the Moon-Lite -- nice images showing each area of the moon under various lighting conditions.
• Motorpark/Mondkarte A scanning of the Rand-McNally moon map?
• Major Lunar Maria
• Die interaktive Mondkarte (In German) Labels the Maria, a few craters, or all the Apollo landing sites.

  Other lunar observing pages on the net:

• Inconstant Moon A similar page to this one, which lists features day by day.
• Bill Arnett's Lunar Info for Amateur Astronomers
• A Day in the Life of the Moon by Jane Houston. Nice discussion of major features appearing at each day of the lunar cycle.
• Geologic Lunar Research Group
• El beso en la Luna , "The Kiss on the Moon" -- a nice lunar observing blog
• The Lunascan Project looks for transient lunar phenomena (TLP)
• The Lure of Lunar Domes
• Roger's Lunar Page Good discussion of Transient Lunar Phenomena, with a chart showing the locations of features with a history of TLP
• Transient Lunar Phenomena Collect observations of TLP here -- observers can help verify each other's observations
• Our Moon ALPO Lunar Selected Area Monitoring Program; the individual pages are also linked under their appropriate Rukl pages here.
• Robinson Lunar Observatory Lots of useful moon links, including predictions of lunar sunrise/sunset rays and a list of books on lunar sciences
• Lunar Observing Challenges by Dennis Borgman
• The Lunar Web Site from Texas Connection.com
• Exploring the Moon from the Lunar and Planetary Institute -- includes nice explanation of Lunar Impact Crater Geology and Structure
• Observation of the Moon by Antonio Cidadao
• I Raggi Lunari Nice discussion of lunar rays, in Italian
• Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee Excellent discussion of lunar librations and phase changes over a lunation and a year.

  Newsletters and Organizations:

• The Lunar Observer, an independant newsletter for students of the moon
• ALPO, Lunar Section
• The American Lunar Society's old link. Their new link is apparently not a full-time IP connection. Their online publication is Selenology
• The Astronomical League's Lunar Club Certificate
• British Astronomical Association's Lunar Section

  Lunar sketches

• my own
• Lunar Sketches of Rich Handy Beautiful work, lots of conte crayon on black paper
• Jane Houston's sketches
• The Manchester Astro Soc. has a nice collection of lunar sketches, including some by the legendary Harold Hill
• Tracy Wilson, including a How to Sketch a Crater tutorial
• Brent Hutto's Moon Page
• Please mail me more sketch links!

  Lunar images on the web:

• Named Lunar Formations image browser
• Clementine Lunar Image Browser Satellite images of any area on the moon (including the far side).
• PDS Lunar Image Atlas Another lunar image browser, also using the Clementine data
• USGS Clementine More images from Clementine, including an amazing false-color topographic map
• Bestimmung der Hohe von Mondbergen gegenuber der Umgebung German site with a moon map program
• Thierry Legault has some stunning high-resolution CCD images of the moon
• Robin Casady's excellent lunar images
• Antonio Cidadao has some wonderful images
• Quail Hollow Observatory where Richard Kowalski is working on lunar mosaics and a large format lunar observer's guide which can be used at the eyepiece.
• Lunar Observatory "Alpha"
• Philipp Salzgeber has some nice moon images, including an animated gif demonstrating the effects of unsteady seeing
• Astrosurf SAP -- On the Moon A wonderful collection of moon shots by Pierre-Olivier Pujat and Jean-Philippe Cazard -- don't miss the "Full Lunar Terminator" mosaic
• Rod Mollise' video stills Amazing what he does with modest equipment!

  Moon Software

• Virtual Moon Atlas (Windows, free of charge and now also open source)
• MoonDock (OS X, free)
• Lunar Map Pro (Windows, non free)
• Lunar (Palm, share)
• Moon Phase (Palm, free)
• Moon Phase Calendar (Palm, free?)
• Moon Info! (Palm, share) also RPN moon calculations
• my Lunatic (Palm, free, no UI, just current ephemeris/libration data)
• my new colongitude program (Unix command line, open source)

  Planetarium Programs with good moon support

• XEphem (Linux, free/share)
• Guide (Windows, pay)
• Starry Night (Mac and Windows, pay)

  Lunar data

• Clementine Data Archive
• Ordering CLementine Data CDROMs
• Using the Clementine data CD in Guide 7.0
• Old Farmer's Almanac: Rise and Set times for the sun, moon, and planets
• Or, use the USNO's moonrise/set page
• Lunar Perigee and Apogee Calculator
• Full moon times for the next 200 years
• Dutch Occultation Association Free program for predicting occultations