Harold Hill’s lunar portfolio is a unique collection of drawings now published for the first time. Each illustration is supplemented with notes made at the time of observation. Astronomical drawing still has an important place alongside photography in the same way that photography has not supplanted the artist in the fields of botany and ornithology, for example.

Indeed, since astronomical images tend to shimmer because of turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere, drawings constructed by an artist who takes advantage of the fleeting moments of perfect vision are often more detailed than photographs. No one can fail to be impressed by the beauty and artistry of this work and, to the initiated, the accuracy and attention to detail is remarkable. This is a book for astronomers, amateur and professional alike, and for those who would simply like to know more about the moon.

Author

Harold Hill

The Charts

Quadrant 1      –                      3

The Ariadaeus Rille (western portion) at sunrise
The Sabine and Ritter Region at the evening terminator
The Sosigenes Rille System – sunset
The Arago to Ross Region
Cassini and surrounds
The Plateau-Dome NE of Linne
Lacus Mortis and Burg
The evening terminator from Messier A to Taruntis
The Mare Spumans under advancing evening light
The South-Eastern “Corner” of the Mare Crisium Region
Alhazen alpha
Neper
The Mare Smythii
Gaus. The walled-plain at sunset
Mare Humboltianum and Belkovich

Quadrant II                           45
Gruithuisen’s “Lunar City”
Eratosthenes
The La Hire Region
The Euler Group
The Hortensius-Milichius Region
The Spitzbergen Mountains
The isolated mountains Piton and Picon
The Region SW of Encke
The Delisle-Diophantus Region
The Harbinger Mountains
The Prinz Rille System
The Otto Struve-Russell Region
Cardanus and Kraff
Hevellius and its environs
Reinr and Reiner gamma
The sunset studies of the Sinus Iridum Region
The Gruithuisen Group
Rumker
Lichtenberg and environs

2. Quadrant III.                    97
The Fammarion Domes
Lassell and environs
The crater Birt
The Fra Mauro Group
The Kies, Kies A and Konig Region
Mercator and Campanus
The Cichus-Weiss Region
Clavius
Moretus
The Weigel Region
Bailly, Bailly and the Dorfels
Hippalus Rille System
The Western Shore of Mare Humorum
Damoiseau
The Miyamori Valley Region
Grimaldi
Sirsalis Rille and environs
Darwin
The Mare Orientale Region
The western portionof Palus Epidemiarum
The basaltic areas of south of Vieta
Zucchius-Noggerath-Phocylides C Region
Wargentin
Inghirami and ebvirons
The Baade-Inghirami-Bouvard Valleys

3. Quadrant IV.                   169
Lade and its environs
The eastern extension of Hypathia Rille
Torricelli B and environs
Torricelli and environs
The last stages of illumination on Geber, Almanon and Abulfeda
Stofler
The Licetus-Heraclitus Region
Curtius
The South Polar Regions
Scott and Amundsen
Boussingault
The Hommel Group
Rabbi Levi and Zagut
Piccolomini and the Altai Mts
Santbech and Columbo
Mare Nectaris (E)
Daguerre
The Goclenius Rille System
Messier and Messier A
Webb and environs
The Biot Region
Vendelinus
The Balmer to Kapteyn B Region
W. Humboltd
Observations of the adverted hemisphere
Janssen
Stevinus and Snellius
The Great Rheita Valley
Limb Regions south and east of W. Humboltd
The Lyot Region

    Harold Hill with his10 inch Newtonian in 1990.