--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Kurt, can you send a link to the map? Thanks! -- Joe
Unfortunately, Rukl's Atlas of the Moon is in book form only, available from Sky Publishing. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931559074/qid=1139358835/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1... They may have one down at Barnes & Noble or at Clark Planetarium. For a quick last minute end-of-work-day printout, I would use the Inconstant Moon online atlas, Inconstant Moon Atlas by Kevin Clark http://www.inconstantmoon.com/atlas.htm Chart D2 - Hortensius Domes aka "Domeland" Chart E2 - Montes Riphaeus Chart F2 - C. Bullialdus. - Rima Hippalaus. Rima Agatharchides (Larger aperature objects) S.E. of C. Bullialdus. Chart H2 - Crater Scheiner. You probably won't be able to find the other objects on the list without more detailed charts. - Canopus56 (Kurt) P.S. - My general spiel on lunar charts: The best freeware option is Chevalley, P. 2006. Virtual Moon Atlas. (Freeware) http://www.astrosurf.com/avl/UK_index.html It's by the same guy behind Cartes du Ciel. I use hard-copy for the Moon, but "VAM" is a quick-n-clean Windows install and will blow your socks off. Here's my link list to online lunar maps: Lunar Planetary Instit. chart catalogue http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/ Inconstant Moon Atlas by Kevin Clark http://www.inconstantmoon.com/atlas.htm Observatorio ARVAL - Moon Map http://www.oarval.org/MoonMapen.htm USGS. 2006. Near-side Color-Coded Topography Map of the Moon. (Web-document) http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/luna_ccsr.html USGS Map-A-Planet http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/maps.html More detail charts, use the LPI (Lunar-Planetary Instit.) LAC (Lunar Aireal Chart) catalogue. They are as detailed as Rukl's Atlas, but frankly they are a major pain-in-the-$ss to print out. For example, here's a link to the LAC-58, Copernicus, which has the Hortensius Domes in the lower right hand corner: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac58/72dpi.jpg (0.9megs) - in http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac58/ The LAC maps are as detailed as Rukl's Atlas (the base drawings for Rukl's Atlas are the LAC Charts), but Rukl's indexing, additions, and portability make it worth the money. The LAC maps were developed in the 1960s with your tax $ to support the Apollo missions. The LPI also has a variant on the LAC maps called the "Geologic Atlas of the Moon." The Geologic Atlas are the LAC charts color coded by lunar geologists: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/ - at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/ These are my favorite lunar maps - outside of Rukl - the GAM color coding really makes the interesting stuff stick out of the chart. In short - - spend the $30 and buy a Rukl. - load VAM on your astrocomputer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com