site map of inconstant moon

The easiest way to navigate Inconstant Moon is via the start page, which uses frames. However, if you are looking for a specific page in a hurry, here is the whole site (almost) arranged by category.
Note, if you are not in the start page then for technical reasons the links will launch additional browser windows. Return to this page by either switching between windows or closing the new ones.

lunar calendars

These appear in the top right frame of the start page. Each has links to the nightly tours, and to the next and previous month:

2006: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
2005: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
2004: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
2003: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
2002: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
2001: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
2000: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
1999: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
1998: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
1997: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

nightly tours

These appear in the main frame of the start page when you click on a day in a calendar:

Standard Month: New Moon, Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four, Day Five, Day Six, Day Seven, Day Eight, Day Nine, Day Ten, Day Eleven, Day Twelve, Day Thirteen, Full Moon, Bright Objects, Day Sixteen, Day Seveteen, Day Eighteen, Day Nineteen, Day Twenty, Day Twenty-One, Day Twenty-Two, Day Twenty-Three, Day Twenty-Four, Day Twenty-Five, Day Twenty-Six, Day Twenty-Seven, Day Twenty-Eight, Day Twenty-Nine.

Special Events: Lunar Eclipse, Solar Eclipse, Blue Moon (popular definition), Blue Moon (almanac definition), Harvest Moon.

notes on tours

When you click on a technical term in a tour, one of these will appear in the centre right frame:

Albedo, Angles, Apogee & Perigee, Captured Rotation, Chronicles of Gervaise, Crater Classification, Danjon Scale, Dimensions, Ecliptic, Equinoxes, Latin Terms, Libration, Libration (animation), Lunar Eclipses, Mare Crisium, Mare Humorum, The Mesopotamians, Moon Illusion, Navigation, Nodes, Phases, Prograde and Retrograde Motion, Rays & Ejecta, Rille, Schröter's Law, Solar Eclipses, Stages of a Total Eclipse, Sunrise & Sunset Rays, Syzygy & Quadrature, Terminology, Transit, Walled Plains and Ring Mountains.

notes on images

These appear in the centre right frame of the start page when you click on a photograph in a tour:

Albategnius, Alpine Valley, The Alps, Altai Scarp, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Apennine Mountains (1), Apennine Mountains (2), Archimedes, Archimedes, Aristullus & Autolycus, Rima Ariadaeus, Aristarchus (1), Aristarchus (2), Aristarchus & Schröter's Valley, Arzachel, Atlas and Hercules, Baily's Beads, Bullialdus, Byrgius, Caucasus Mountains, Cauchy, Clavius (1), Clavius (2), Cleomedes, Copernicus (1), Copernicus (2), Mare Crisium, Dionysius, Lunar Eclipse, Endymion, Euclid, Mare Fecunditatis, Mare Frigoris, Gassendi, Grimaldi, Mare Humorum, Sinus Iridium, Janssen (1), Janssen (2), Kepler, Langrenus, Lunokhod 1, Luna 9, Maginus, Manilius, Maurolycus, Menelaus & Manilius, Mare Nectaris, Mare Orientale, Petavius, Petavius & Furnerius, Piccolomini, Pitatus and Hesiodus, Plato (1), Plato (2), Pliny, Posidonius (1), Posidonius (2), Proclus, Ptolemy, Alphonsus & Arzachel, Pythagoras, Reiner Gamma, Schickard, Schickard, Nasmyth & Phocylides, Schiller, Straight Wall (1), Straight Wall (2), Teneriffe Mountains, Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina, Tycho (1), Tycho (2), Tycho (3), Vendelinus, Wargentin, Zucchius.

cyclopedia selenica

This section is found by clicking the CYCLOPEDIA link in the top-right frame. As with the whole of Inconstant Moon, it works best in a frame context. It contains a variety of articles:

Introduction, Apollo Project, Bookstore (welcome), Bookstore, Blue Moons, Data Box, Distance Converter, Eclipses (nature), Eclipses (frequency), Eclipses (the Saros), Exploration, Guest Book, Guest Book Archive, Moon Memory Game, Phase Calculator, Phases, Q & A, Quiz (basic), Quiz (intermediate), Quiz (expert), Selene & Euterpe (poetry), Site Search, Technical FAQ, This Moon and Others, Trivia.

lunar diary

A section within the Cyclopedia Selenica, found by clicking the CYCLOPEDIA link in the top-right frame. A new page is added shortly before each new year:

2003, 2002, 2001.

moon news

A section within the Cyclopedia Selenica, found by clicking the CYCLOPEDIA link in the top-right frame. A new page is added with the first news article of the year:

2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999.

lunar image of the month

A section within the Cyclopedia Selenica, found by clicking the CYCLOPEDIA link in the top-right frame. A new page is added at the beginning of every month:

Galileo False Colour Image, Surveyor 3 & Apollo 12, Moon in Gamma Rays, Copernicus from Lunar Orbiter 2, Lunar South Pole, Paintings by Galileo, Surveyor 6 Panorama, Schröter’s Valley (and TLPs), Lunar Nearside, Lunar Farside, The Ecliptic Plane, Lunar Module Blastoff, Impact Crater, Earth's Shadow, The Smallest Moon?, The Largest Crater, X-ray Moon, Earth & Moon, Shadow of the Moon, Time Lapse Lunar Eclipse, Ray Crater on Mercury, Earth's Second Moon, Iron Moon, New Moons, Eclipse Tree, One Small Step, Moon Shadow, Hevelius Moon Map, Copernicus from Hubble, Perigee and Apogee, Micro Impact Crater, Moon Halo, Impact, Over the Moon, Lunar Occultation of Saturn, da Vinci Moon Map, Annular Eclipse, Return of the Eagle, Ice Crater, Sun, Moon, Shuttle and Shadow, Earthshine, Farside Closeup, Moon with Sun, Venus & Southern Cross, Moon Rocks in Antarctica, Shut Out That Moon, Sidereus Nuncius, A Flash in the Pan?, Darkest Africa, Ariadaeus Rille. Seeing the Lunar Module, Earth and Moon from Mars, Galileo's Lunar Legacy, Another Moon, Total Eclipse, Orange Moondust, Copernicus Digitised Terrain, Galilean Vista, Yepun Visits the Moon.

links

These are mainly found in the "Surf the Moon" section of the Cyclopedia Selenica (found by clicking "Cyclopedia" in the top-right frame). There is also a set of relevant links in the "other resources" page in the Selenographia lunar atlas (found by clicking "Atlas" in the top-right frame). The synopses and links for the category you choose will appear in the main frame:

Introductions, Observations, Images, Special Features, Calculators & Tables, Exploration, Organisations, Atlas and Map Resources.

maps

The high resolution charts in the Selenographia lunar atlas will not work outside the frame context. However, there are also over 50 themed maps:

The Near Side, The Maria, Physical Features, Rükl Sections, Apollo Landings, The Far Side, Farside Features, The Whole Moon, Whole Moon Features.

Albedo: Near Side , Far Side , West Side , East Side , North Side , South Side , Whole Surface

Equal Area: Near Side , Far Side, North Side, South Side

Features: Maria, Other Features, Far Side, Whole Surface

Geophysics: Bouguer Gravity Anomaly, Crustal Thickness, Free-Air Gravity Anomaly, Geoid Anomaly, Topography Near Side, Topography Far Side, topography west side, Topography East Side, Topography Whole Surface

Geology: Iron Near Side, Iron Far Side, Neutron Near Side, Neutron Far Side, Thorium Near Side, Thorium Far Side, Titanium Near Side, Titanium Far Side

Exploration: Apollo Landings, American Landings, Soviet Landings, Far Side Landings

Folklore: Crab in the Moon, Frog in the Moon, Hare in the Moon, Man in the Moon (modern), Man in the Moon (traditional), Man in the Moon (Shakespeare), Rabbit in the Moon, Toad in the Moon, Woman in the Moon

Atlas Layouts: Consolidated Lunar Atlas, Hatfield Photographic Atlas, Rükl Lunar Atlas, Selenographia Lunar Atlas

Phenomena: Meteorite Impacts, Transient Lunar Phenomena.

guides

The guides to using Inconstant Moon can be accessed from the foot of most of the main pages, and appear in the centre right frame. The other introductory pages are prominently placed near the beginning of each section:

Lunar Tours Introduction, Lunar Tours Guide, Cyclopedia Selenica Introduction, Cyclopedia Selenica Guide, Selenographia Introduction, Selenographia Guide, Map Guide, Selenographia Background.

lists

These appear in the centre right frame of the start page. Click on "Index" in a calendar or, for a catalog, on the name of a feature in a tour:

Index of Features, Catalog Part One, Part Two, Part Three.

musical programmes

These appear in the bottom right frame of the start page, and automatically advance through a programme. Click on "Menu" and switch programme or track in the centre right frame.

Classical: "Moonlight" Sonata 1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement, Clair de Lune, Warsaw Concerto.

Rock & Pop:
Moonage Daydream, Bark at the Moon, To The Moon and Back, New Moon on Monday, Moonflower, Moon Dance, Monkberry Moon Delight, Moonlight Shadow, Sisters of the Moon, C Moon, Walking on the Moon, Us and Them, Book of Days.

Oldies: Blue Moon, Fly Me to the Moon, Moon over Naples, Moonlight Serenade, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon River, Moonlight in Vermont.

Country: Neon Moon, Bad Moon Rising, When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again.

Media: Sailor Moon Theme, Moonlight Denetsu, Moonlighting Theme.

General Midi Reset.

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