The Lunar Orbiters of the 1960's returned a treasure trove
of high quality photos of the Moon. These haven't been
available in digital format until recently, however.
Now the USGS and Arizona State have converted
some of the Lunar Orbiter images and their products
can be found at

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/Luna...terDigitization

and

http://ser.sese.asu.edu/LO/



I am mostly illiterate when it comes to computer
photo workshopes. Could other members of the UMSF
community take some of those online images and
produce mosaics of portions of the Moon's surface?
I suggest creating mosaics of high resolution images
of some candidate landing sites on the Moon.
These are of about 1-meter quality, almost as good
as MRO images.


Another Phil

OK, OK, so I'm replying to myself. However, I have a request of Phil Stooke.
This is in regard to a mosaic of the Moon's Farside that was credited to you on
Chuck Wood's LPOD entries of April 10, 2004 and September 5, 2006.
There is a link on those dates' entries to
this mosaic assembled using Lunar Orbiter images. One can then click on that
mosaic and see a slightly enlarged version.

Here is the link to that mosaic.

http://www.lpod.org/archive/archive/2004/0...-2004-04-10.htm


My question for Phil would be - do you have a link to a higher resolution version
of your excellent mosaic? I want to add that it is about time that someone has
finally utilized those Lunar Orbiter images to produce such a mosaic.

Thanks Phil, from

Another Phil

Thanks for the link! I had no idea Phil Stooke ever made a mosaic like that! Wow!

As for the high resolution scans, my problem is that they are too big. I attempted a largescale mosaic once, but my computer locked before I could save it. These images are already 5900x4375 (that is 25.8 megapixels!), and that is just for individual images. Enlarging these to work on them only makes matters worse.

Not a link - I'll have to dig out the original, but it never was very high resolution. I think the original was 2000 pixels across, but I used lower resolution sources, not the better stuff available today, and it looks better at LPOD resolution.

This is an image from my atlas. I made a series, starting from Luna 3, adding each mission (Zond 3 and each Lunar Orbiter) until I got to this one with full coverage.

I'll post something here soon.

Phil

Hey Phil if you give it away one piece at a time, no one will buy the book.

To heck with them, Phil... I'LL buy the book, that I can promise.



-the other Doug

Me too. There is something about images in print.

There are getting on for 1000 images in the book. I can afford to give a few away!

Busy with indexing and proofreading now...

Phil

Regarding Phil's mosaic:
"Wow"
You can quote me.
also:
"Gosh-Wow-Boy-Oh-Boy!"

For Phil Stooke - would it be possible to post a higher resolution version
of quarters of the Lunar Orbiter mosaic of the Far Side? I'm thinking that they
would look something like this Clementine Far Side quadrant posted on April 25, 2007
on LPOD by Chuck Woods. It seems that, at this scale, features would be readily
recognizable, but at a reasonable file size.

http://www.lpod.org/?p=1073#respond



Another Phil

This image was not made at very high resolution or high quality. Here I am posting the full resolution (but heavily JPEGed) file. It could be done much better today using the cleaned-up files now available from Charles Byrne and USGS. Incidentally, Byrne is now working on a farside atlas to accompany his nearside atlas.

Phil

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