The craters, mountains and plains of the moon are the only extraterrestrial landscapes that can be observed from Earth with simple means. The advent of digital technology in amateur astronomy over the past 15 years now allows even amateur photographers to achieve a level of image quality and resolution that previously seemed unattainable.
This innovative, in-depth atlas is the first to make use of this technology, showing 60 regions of the moon's surface in large-format, detailed images. Photographs taken under different lighting conditions bring the lunar landscapes to life and make them easier for observers to understand when viewing through a telescope. The entire front side of the moon visible from Earth is covered almost completely.
Alan Chu, astrophotographer from Hong Kong, and German moon photographers Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand have combined over 400 of their best moon photographs to create an impressively detailed atlas of our neighbour. The high-resolution images not only allow the moon's formations to be identified, but also show the morphology of the moon's surface in unprecedented detail.
The Photographic Moon Atlas is a unique work for visual and photographic moon observers and is unrivalled in its detail and completeness.
