Whitepeak Observatory, Tacoma, WA
NOTICE: The new edition of "Moonbook" (ver.3.2 released January 2008) is now available on this mirror.
During 2007 there were over 58 gigs worth of downloads from this mirror of this excellent lunar observer's resource!
This page is a courtesy North American downloading mirror for Hong Kong based amateur Alan Chu's supurb "Photographic Moon Book". For those unfamiliar with this free publication, it is a photographic guidebook to the moon containing nearly 300 annotated images of lunar features with complete feature descriptions in 33 map sections--- and too much more useful information to list here. It is an excellent (I feel the very best available, free or otherwise) observer's guide to our Moon. This is the version released Jan. 2007. 225 pages.
For more information visit Alan Chu's website.
CHANGES BETWEN V.3.1.AND V.3.2
The v3.2 is almost same as v3.1 in image presentation, but the text has following changes:
Regrouped Map 15, 16, 29 with few NP or SP images.
Updated Farside Map.
Updated Spacecraft page.
Updated Moon Data page.
Added Lunar Geologic Timescale in Map 1.
Added Non-Crater List.
Minor updates or corrections in feature descriptions.
Total 231 pages.
The v3.2 (PDF) is optimized to the format of Adobe Reader 8.0 using 19-inch LCD display at 1280 x 1024 pixels, although it is readable on Adobe Reader 5.0. The v3.1 can still be used if the changes of text are not minded.
Download Link Photographic Moonbook V.3.2 January 2008:
RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT: "Save Target As"(106MB pdf)