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why are moon maps printed the right way up ....When the image through a telescope is upside down and back to front!?
looking at the moon with the naked eye i cant see the apennines...for example... so i try to relate what i see on the maps to what i actually see thru my scope and it's confusing. I was unaware of a "corrector lens" so that's helpful.. and it's no point flipping the image of a map before printing it out or i'd need to learn mirror writing too lol.
8 Answers
- Brigalow BlokeLv 74 years ago
There is no right way up, just as there is no right way up for maps of the Earth. The Moon is seen upside down from the northern hemisphere compared to the view from the southern. Binoculars and telephoto camera lenses, to give two common examples, are telescopes and give an erect image.
Source(s): http://imgur.com/gallery/ZPY5fvh - Anonymous4 years ago
Not all telescopes will present you with upside-down and/or reverse images, in fact I think most of them don't. The maps are how the moon appears in the sky to the naked eye. It makes sense just that way.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
It is so not confuse us looking from Earth.
In space there actually is no up or down.
Through Telescopes it is all about the Optics.
- AthenaLv 74 years ago
One is correct and one is the result of optic.
Why is a tree pictured form ground to sky when a telescope shows it the other way around ??
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- DaveLv 44 years ago
You are looming in the wrong end of your telescope!! It is right side upsy daisy in my telescope...or, rotate your telescope 180 degrees, it is upside down.
- ?Lv 74 years ago
They are printed with the North side up based on the axis of rotation. The reason , convention.
- 4 years ago
Get a corrector lens.... then, the image in your scope will match the image that's printed.