Journal of the SPA Lunar Section

Luna, the journal of the SPA Lunar Section, has been published since 1975. It contains members' observations, lunar information and Moon-related news and articles. It is available to SPA members and non-members alike by subscription, direct from Peter Grego.

UK cost per 4 issues: send 14 1st class UK postage stamps to Peter Grego (8 issues: 28 1st class stamps).

EU subscribers - £6 UK Sterling (per 4 issues).

US subscribers - £10 UK Sterling (per 4 issues).

Rest of world - £12 UK Sterling (per 4 issues).

Luna article archive

Luna - January 1998

Lunar Occultations

Lunar Prospector Orbiting Moon!

Luna - August 1998

Alan B. Shepard, Jr 1923-1998

Mount Schneckenberg - the Spiral Mountain

Luna 49 - Summer 1999

Lunar Prospector's chilling demise

Luna 50 - Autumn 1999

New project to rays interest

Luna 51 - Spring 2000

Europe is going to the Moon

Luna 52 - Summer 2000

CCD close up of Crisium

Longest lunar eclipse until 3000

Langrenus lights up

 

 

Luna 53 - Spring 2001

A magnificent Imbrian quartet. Views of Archimedes, Aristillus and Autolycus
Contents / lunar observations received
Eastern Mare Imbrium and Montes Spitzbergen by Mike Brown / Archimedes by Peter Grego
Pythagoras by Grahame Wheatley and Peter Grego
Dramatic angles on familiar features! Views of the Pythagoras area
Posidonius by Mike Brown, Bob Paterson and Grahame Wheatley
‘Crossed swords’ west of Eudoxus by Colin Ebdon
Manilius, Seleucus & Eddington by Daniel del Valle Hernández / Schiller’s unusual elliptical shape by Eddie Carpenter
On the brightness of total lunar eclipses by Chris Lord
January’s total lunar eclipse by Shelagh Godwin, Alan Heath, Lee Macdonald and Alastair cBeath
Lamont at sunrise and sunset by Grahame Wheatley
Imaging the Moon with a digital camera by Doug Daniels
A serene sunset by Peter Grego
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Luna 54 - December 2001

Sunset over eastern Mare Serenitatis—CCD image by Mike Brown
Contents
Lunar observations received
News of the Moon
Plato and ‘Ancient Newton’ by Colin Ebdon
Plato and ‘Ancient Newton’ by Grahame Wheatley
Plato and ‘Ancient Newton’ CCD images by Mike Brown
Studies of the 20 day old Moon by Peter Grego
Theophilus and Cyrillus by Grahame Wheatley / CCD images by Mike Brown and Peter Grego
Aliacensis, Werner and Blanchinus by Bob Paterson
Taruntius by Daniel del Valle Hernández
8 day old Moon—photographs by Edward Horsley
Babbage at sunrise by Grahame Wheatley
Archimedes and environs CCD images by Mike Brown
Archimedes by Edward Horsley
Montes Spitzbergensis by Grahame Wheatley
Scott, Schomberger and Simpelius by Grahame Wheatley
Lacus Mortis—CCD image by Mike Brown
Lacus Mortis by Grahame Wheatley
Casatus and Klaproth by Grahame Wheatley
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Luna 55 - July 2002

* Sunrise over Endymion by Michael Hezzlewood
* Selenographer Honoured
* Contents
* Lunar observations received
* News of the Moon: Secret Soviet Moon rocket revealed / Moon 	power / Did 10th planet help crater the Moon? / Moonbase Alpha / Malapert Alpha by Grahame Wheatley / A lunar Mount Rushmore? / Lunar Love numbers proclaim that the Moon’s heart is melted
* The Alpine Valley and ‘Elger’s Rille’ by Michael Hezzlewood / Philip Fauth on the Alpine Valley
* The Weigel region by Grahame Wheatley and Colin Ebdon
* Franklin and Cepheus by Harold Hill
* Alphonsus and Ptolemaeus CCD image by Mike Brown
* Cauchy, rupes, domes / Mare Crisium & Yerkes by Daniel del Valle
* Kies by Colin Ebdon
* Gassendi by Peter Grego
* Krieger by Edward Horsley / Johann Krieger, selenographer
* Mons Piton and Montes Alpes by Grahame Wheatley
* The South Polar region by Grahame Wheatley
* Feature finder

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