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Photographing the Moon and planets has long been a mainstay of both amateur and professional astronomy. It wasn’t so long ago that images from Voyager were wowing astronomers and scientists while amateurs struggled away working with photographic film attempting to capture clear images of our nearest neighbors – and I think it’s fair to say falling well short of not only what spacecraft were recording but also of what visual observers were recording with pencil and paper.
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Peach, D. (2013). High Resolution Lunar and Planetary Imaging. In: Gendler, R. (eds) Lessons from the Masters. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, vol 179. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7834-8_12
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