Cambridge photographic moon atlas series#

and imperfections to provide a comprehensive and beautifully detailed set of images of the lunar surface. Using 21st century techniques, Charles Byrne - previously System Engineer of the Apollo Program for Lunar Orbiter Photography - has removed almost all the artifacts.

Cambridge photographic moon atlas series#

In 1967, Lunar Orbiter Mission 4 sent back to Earth a superb series of photographs of the surface of the Moon, despite severe degradation caused by scanning and the reconstruction processes involved in transmission from lunar orbit. Special emphasis is placed here on types of information where current earth-based photography still excels: (a) low-oblique photography, which brings out low domes, lava beds, and other structures of considerable horizontal dimension, but of low vertical relief and (b) full-moon photography, which presents photometric information totally unavailable from even high- resolution records taken with 20 degrees or 30 degrees sun angles. 3 and 4, thus completing the series announced in the 1960 Atlas. The present Consolidated Lunar Atlas combines Supplements Nos. several lunar programs have endeavored to obtain improved photographic coverage. In spite of the care and supervision given this publication, some detail, especially of a photometric nature, was lost although the resolution was not appreciably impaired. In 1960 a selection of the best available lunar photography was published in the Photographic Lunar Atlas (Kuiper, Arthur, Moore, Tapscott, Whitaker, Univ.