The former Soviet Union logged the first successes with its Luna program, starting with Luna 1 in 1959. He lives in Switzerland in Geneva canton.With Earth Blue, Rocket Red and Lunar Silver for colors, every part of the identity has meaning. Professionally, Patrick Chevalley is computing engineer in the Geneva town administration.īorn in 1958, he is married and father of two children.
VIRTUAL MOON ATLAS PRO 6 SOFTWARE
Mails answer when they are about software and translations Translations managing and contacts with translators Without his knowledges in programing and his Web practice, “Virtual Moon Atlas” will not be born.Ībout “Virtual Moon Atlas”, Patrick Chevalley has in charge : In fact, he begun to program this kind of software in 1984. Patrick Chevalley is worldwide known for his excellent celestial cartography freeware "Sky Charts". Professionally, Christian Legrand is engineer in the french Ministry in charge of industry.īorn in 1953, he is married and father of two children. Mails answer when they are about databases and pictures library Authorizations requests of specialized scientific organisms Pictures search and processing for inclusion in libraries Maps and overlays search and pre processing for Patrick inclusion in VMA Informations search and typing for database General conception and evolution of the atlas This guide presents, as VMA, the lunar formations with their exact orientation in various instruments.įrom 2006 January to 2008, he wrote the Blog "Images lunaires" that periodically presents the french translation of the site “Lunar Picture of the day” (LPOD) by Charles Wood.īetween 2007 March and 2008, he was also editor in the french magazine "Espace Magazine" and was in charge of the page “Lunar Tourism” that presents interesting lunar sites for observing.Ībout “Virtual Moon Atlas”, Christian Legrand is in charge of : In 2000, He wrote with Jean Lacroux "Discover the Moon", a beginner's guide soon published by Cambridge University Press, and now also published in german and spanish. In 1995, he had yet realized and edited a database about lunar formations with a managing software called ” DB-LUNE ” and illustrated with pictures of Etienne Lecoq.
Who is behind VMA ? Two astronomy passioned friends, each one in a special domain (The Moon for the first and astronomy computing and programming for the second) whose reunion has permitted the VMA realization.Ĭonceiver of the “Virtual Moon Atlas”, Christian Legrand is a passionated Moon observer, who has been impressed by Moon exploration. The new pictures library taken by Damian Peach The new pictures library taken with the 1 meter telescope of Pic Du Midi The new “WEBLUN” module with access to the main lunar Web sites
The new exclusive database containing more than 52 000 anonymous graters identified by their L.U.N. The creation of the “LUNAR UNIVERSAL NUMBER / L.U.N.” for localizing easily each lunar formation The updated databases with the new IAU lunar nomenclature The new historical textures Hévélius / Langrénus / Beer & Mädler 2 new textures “Ultra high resolution” LRO and Chang'é 2 Armstrong since his “small step and giant leap” have given a lot of motivation for many of us for practicing amateur astronomy and specially Moon observation.ġ5 november 2012 / New Pro 6 & 10 th anniversary” version released We hope that all that new stuff will make your lunar observations or survays more and more interesting !Īnd this year it was evident that we have to dedicate this new version to Neil A. Since december 2009, date of the release of the “Pro 5” version, we were waiting the datas from recent lunar probes US LRO and chinese Chang'é 2 to format them and make them usable with VMA.It's now done and we have also used this long period for adding new modules and features to VMA, but also to actualize and correct its databases. For its tenth anniversary, we are happy to bring you the new “Pro” 6.0 version, the most complete computerized lunar atlas.