Lunar Collection (page 2)

Apollo 11 lunar landings, July 1969
Page from The Illustrated London News showing four photographs of American astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin walking about and conducting scientific experiements on the moon, taken by Neil Armstrong

Cheerio - Moon and pixies greetings card
Vintage greetings card showing a crescent moon from which two cute pixies swing among the stars. Date: c.1930

Lunar Eclipses
Total and partial eclipses of the Moon. Date: 1877

Lunar Landscape in Sun
A lunar landscape in full sunlight : the Earth in the distance. Date: circa 1890

Lunar Phenomenon 1893
Light phenomena in the Polar night : moon-ring with vertical axis through the Moon Date: 22 November 1893

Lunar Phenomenon 1893 3
Moonlight phenomena at the beginning of the Polar Night : vertical axes pass through the Moon and two mock moons, luminous patches show where they intersect the horizon Date: November 1893

Spaceship over Moon
FANTASIA LUNAR - a huge spacecraft from Earth flies over the Moons rocky surface. Date: 1929

Lunar Landscape 1911
The surface of the Moon as imagined in 1911, with a volcanic crater, a rocky plain and mountains. Date: 1911

Capt Sir William Fraser, Bar F.R.S, (d.1818), one of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, (1737 - 1818) on left a rolled chart of Papua New Guinea

Flights into the Future - technicians inspecting space ship
Technicians making a final inspection of a space ship, before it makes its flight to the moon - a futuristic prediction of fiction which will one day be fact

Flights into the Future - the first men on the moon
Astronauts land on the moon for the first time and set about exploring and taking samples from the lunar landscape. A imaginary

Flights into the Future - space age exploration
A futuristic prediction of what it will be like when man finally lands on the moon - astronauts will find themselves in a strange world. Date: 1943

Map of the Moon Date: circa 1900

Lunar Volcano
A lunar volcano. Date: 1891

Lunar Crater
A lunar crater Date: late 19th century

John Allen, right, of the Avro Weapons Research Division?
John Allen, right, of the Avro Weapons Research Division, discussed the extreme launch accuracies needed for lunar probes at a lecture to the Graduates

John Allen, left, of the Avro Weapons Research Division, ?
John Allen, left, of the Avro Weapons Research Division, discussed the extreme launch accuracies needed for lunar probes at a lecture to the Graduates

Hokke Hall (Hokke-do) within the Todai complex, Nara, Japan
The Hokke Hall (Hokke-do) within the Todai temple complex - often called the Sangatsu Hall (Sangatsu-do) - where in ancient times the Lotus Sutra (Japanese)

Caesio lunaris, lunar fusilier
Plate 34 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Slice of the lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 482
A slice of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 482. This meteorite is very rich in the feldspar mineral anorthite, which give it its pale colour

Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zeniths long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875. Date between 1875 and 1880

Guide to available moonlight during 1939
A diagram prepared for readers of The Sphere in order that they may know, at a glance, how much moonlight they will get on any particular evening of the period

PARSELENE
Parselene and lunar rainbow Date: 1907 - 1909

Lunar Landscape
The crater Plato : overhead is the Earth, somewhat larger than it would actually appear. Date: 1890s

Les Robinsons Lunaires, title page
(The lunar family Robinson) A balloon is carried to the Moon, but make a successful return to Earth

Lunar surface sketched by Galileo
A sketch of the lunar surface made by Galileo and originally published in his book Siderius Nuncius in 1610

Hidden Lunar City
HIDDEN CITY by Chesters Geier. Two spacemen spot a hidden circular city rising out of a crater on a seemingly deserted moon

Lunar Corona Arctic
Lunar corona observed by an Arctic expedition

Lunar Corona
Lunar corona observed at Moscow, to the alarm of the populace

Moon on Tenth Day
The moon photographed on the tenth day of the lunar cycle

Lunar Phenomenon 1893 2
Lunar phenomena in the Polar night : an inverted arch forms a tangent to the moon-ring, luminous patches show where the ring intersects with the horizon

Robinsons Lunaires Cover
(The lunar family Robinson) by G Le Faure. A balloon is carried to the Moon, but make a successful return to Earth

Ufos / Apollo II
Alleged UFO photographed from Apollo II during lunar orbit

Lunar Influence
Full Moon has sensuous influence on scantily clad woman

Lunar Corona (Cig Card)
Lunar corona observed over a sea-coast where a warship is wandering

The Moons Surface
The Moons surface, spattered with rocks and the craters of extinct volcanoes, testifying to a more violent past than the present appearance suggests

Moon / Lunar Craters
Lunar craters

Moon / Forming Crater
The stages of formation of a lunar crater

Lunar Navigation / 1862
Taking a lunar distance

Moon - Fracastorius
The moons surface showing Fracastorius - a spot on the south-western part of the moons disc

Moon - Kepler
The moons surface showing Kepler - a spot of remarkable brilliancy

Volcano and Eclipse
An eclipse of the moon seen above a smoking volcano

Lunar Influences
The Influence of the Moon on the Heads of Women a 17th century caricature which manages to be both politically incorrect and scientifically doubtful

First on Moon / Gravity
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON Cavor and Bedford try the effects of lunar gravity

First on Moon / Vegetation
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON The travellers wonder at lunar vegetation, and encounter a drunken Selenite

Valier rocket taking off from the moon
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes using a lunar base for rockets travelling to distant planets. (3 of 3)

Valier rocket lunar base
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes a lunar base using solar power, from which travel to more distant destinations will be easier than from Earth. (2 of 3)

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