Harold Hill and the South Polar region of the Moon

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Apr 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jbaa..120...86b&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.120, no.2, p.86-97

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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For over half a century the British selenographer Harold Hill laboured to produce a detailed chart of the region around the south pole of the Moon. In the year before his death, having concluded the project would never be completed in his lifetime, he sent the writer a fragment of his archive, no doubt with the unspoken assumption that at least some part might be brought to general notice. Accordingly as the man is so much a piece of his work, and so much of his life is in his work, I have found it more suitable to adopt a biographical approach to outline the essence of his epic undertaking. Here the writer notes but does not discuss, a parallel with the lunar drawings of the eighteenth century portrait painter John Russell. His drawings of the Moon exceed in quality and accuracy those of his more illustrious contemporaries, and certainly pre-empted the classic work of Beer and Mädler, yet curiously they are little noticed in histories of selenography.

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