Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon

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<p>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 artifacts and the reconstruction processes involved in transmission from lunar orbit.</p><p><p>Using 21^st century techniques, Charles Byrne ¿ previously System Engineer of the Apollo Program for Lunar Orbiter Photography ¿ has removed the artifacts and imperfections to produce the most comprehensive and beautifully detailed set of images of the lunar surface.</p><p><p>The book has been organized to make it easy for astronomers to use, enabling ground-based images and views to be compared with the Orbiter photograph. All features have been identified with their current IAU-approved names, and each photograph has been located in terms of latitude and longitude. To help practical astronomers, all the photographs are systematically related to an Earth-based view.</p>

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