The moon - Page 3

**airdave** · #21 11-12-2012, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Mechanic

Btw, I haven't seen any really good models of the Earth. . . just sayin'

Uhu has an excellent Earth globe.
Comes in two versions...with and without Cloud layer.

Its considerably smaller scale than this Moon though!

Nice work Ken.
I will be getting me one of these.

**Vermin_King** · #22 11-12-2012, 06:56 PM

I can see it now, an earth-set diorama with the moon in the forground, earth behind, and a starscape behind that.

**kenlwest** · #23 11-12-2012, 07:42 PM

I made these quick photos of the Moon globe for ecardmodels to show all sides. I used a digital circle cutter to trim out the Moon's image, and then pasted them over a black background. I thought you might like to see these!

BTW, take a close look at picture 1: look in the lower left corner of the Sea of Tranquility. There you will see the landing site of Apollo 11. It's the only lunar landing site on the globe, and I suspect that's because it was the only completed mission at the time the original map was released.

Ken

**papermodelfan** · #24 11-13-2012, 12:02 AM

Many thanks Ken. This is a total classic. Next stop, Mars?

**luke strawwalker** · #25 11-13-2012, 08:11 PM

hey, that's great...

I tell you something *I* would LOVE to see... scale "globes" of ALL (within reason-- obviously some would be TOO BIG to do realistically) the planets/moons sized to scale with a regular standard off-the-shelf 12 inch schoolroom Earth globe... The Moon would be about 3-4 inches in diameter at this scale IIRC...(off the cuff). Mars would be about 6 inches or so, and of course Venus would be right around 11 inches, Mercury around 4 inches, Titan would be about 5 inches... the big outer planets would be too big at this scale (Jupiter would be over 11 FEET in diameter at this scale, Saturn would be probably 8-9 feet, and Uranus and Neptune would be 3-4 feet or thereabouts... obviously too large but being gas giants or ice giants they aren't needed anyway-- no surface to map!) Pluto would be about 3-4 inches and Ceres about an inch or so I guess...

It would make an interesting display... Just FYI at this scale, the Sun would be about 110 feet in diameter... or thereabouts...

I calculated one time the distances these globes would have to be placed apart to make a scale model of the solar system... IIRC (going from a long-ago memory) the Sun would be about a mile away from Earth, and Pluto would end up being over 80 miles away! The Moon would be about 20 odd feet away IIRC...

Kids are always amazed when I tell them this... at this scale, most of Earth's atmosphere is about as thick as a Kleenex and the space shuttle never got more than 1/3 of an inch above the surface of that 12 inch schoolroom globe...

Later! OL JR

**nikischutt** · #26 11-14-2012, 11:47 PM

This is cool. Earth to follow?

Niki

**Maverick65** · #27 11-15-2012, 12:13 AM

Greetings All,

Found other paper heavenly bodies on a German site which include the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Included with the Earth is the Moon (not the same level of detail) Jupiter also includes it's moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Astronomische Bastelbögen für den Schulunterricht und Zuhause - Westflische Volkssternwarte und Planetarium Recklinghausen

Might be useful by some.

Still cant wait for Ken's version to come available.

**Mechanic** · #28 11-15-2012, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by airdave

Uhu has an excellent Earth globe.
Comes in two versions...with and without Cloud layer.

Its considerably smaller scale than this Moon though!

Nice work Ken.
I will be getting me one of these.

I love UHU02's work, but I have to admit I have trouble looking through his web site for specific things, so I haven't seen this. But, having said that, is the resolution comparable for the size?

**airdave** · #29 11-15-2012, 10:12 PM

Its available, on his public pages...don't know for how long (lol)
but its there:
1???1??? ???????? 1/100000000Earth: uhu02 ????????

at one hundred millionth scale, I don't know how well it well scale up to Ken's model.

**airdave** · #30 11-16-2012, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by kenlwest

I made these quick photos of the Moon globe for ecardmodels to show all sides. I used a digital circle cutter to trim out the Moon's image, and then pasted them over a black background. I thought you might like to see these!

BTW, take a close look at picture 1: look in the lower left corner of the Sea of Tranquility. There you will see the landing site of Apollo 11. It's the only lunar landing site on the globe, and I suspect that's because it was the only completed mission at the time the original map was released.

Ken

Is the location of the Moon Base marked?