Clicking on this opens up a sub-menu with a number of individual layers starting with Overlays and ending at the bottom with LROC WAC Basemaps. Searching for Gassendi via the Nomenclature layer in the Overlays sub-menu Figure 4 shows the next item on the menu bar, which is the ‘Layers’ icon of three horizontal bars. To get back to the normal 3D globe view use the house icon below the ‘Fly around selected point’ one.įigure 4. The simulation can be a bit ‘jerky’ but is perfectly usable. Once the icon is blue to show it is active, just click on the spot on the lunar globe you want to fly around, and a rather nice 3D simulation pops up flying around your chosen spot. You do this by selecting the ‘Fly around selected point’ icon shown in Figure 3, which appears when you select the Lunar Globe 3D function. The star feature, however, of this 3D view is the ability to select a point and virtually fly around it. You can still zoom in and out and use various functions and overlays available in the Layers menu (described below), but the feature names are no longer available. The advantage of this function is that you can view any part of the surface even at high latitude without the distortion of perspective and from a simulated vertical position. The fancy new function to try in the Projections sub-menu is the Lunar Globe 3D (last item on the sub-menu) which produces a 3D globe which you can twirl around using the mouse. The Projections sub-menuWhen you click an icon on this new menu bar, the icon selected turns blue and the sub-menu pops out to the right. The default projection as shown in Figure 1 is Orthographic (Nearside), but you can change this by clicking on the globe icon at the very top of the menu bar to open up the ‘Projections’ layer, as seen in Figure 2. In the bottom left corner to the right of the ? symbol, you will see the lat/long data, and finally the scale bar is in bottom right. The zoom control can be found at the top right hand corner. The slim menu bar on the left-hand side has changed in appearance, with a number of icons that expand by selecting them. As seen in Figure 1.įigure 1.The Quickmap home page in its default setting. The lunar image you see on the screen remains unchanged, and if you just want to explore the surface using a mouse without plunging into the menus you still can.īy selecting, you will be directed to the Quickmap home page. The major changes apply to the menus and the data and layers available. Given the British climate and the few opportunities we have to view the Moon telescopically, you will all be delighted to know that the Quickmap site has been updated with a number of new additional functions. 2018 January 3 QUICKMAP – Latest Version Now Live
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