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133:(TLP) are caused by optical illusions, caused e.g. by the Earth's atmosphere (meteorite impacts which may cause small flashes of light and craters on the lunar surface are not meant by TLP). "The depth of understanding of the nature of lunar topography demonstrated by Fauth was certainly far superior to that possessed by the vast majority of his contemporaries", but he was not able to convince the astronomical community about this point. Reports of TLP will continue "to challenge today's consensus that the moon is dead" says Dobbins.
118:"By 1899 Fauth had charted 2,532 previously undiscovered craterlets and rilles, and in another three years of work he had more than doubled this number ... A ruthless perfectionist, many of his drawings are marvels of accuracy in both proportion and in position. Fauth was the last of the great visual observers, and the very high standards he set for himself were never approached by his contemporaries".
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389:(German ancestral heritage) and continued his research as an employee of the Ahnenerbe until his death in 1941. In the Ahnenerbe, Fauth continued his work on the large Moon atlas and the WEL. Alongside he proposed the setup of people ("Volks") observatories, telescopes and microscopes, but the plans were stalled soon after outbreak of
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The large lunar atlas on a scale of 1:1 million (3.5 meters in diameter) Fauth sketched on 22 sheets over photographic and micrometer anchor points in decades of observation he could not finish anymore due to his death in 1941. It was not completed until 1964, 23 years after Fauth's death, by his son
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Fauth firmly believed that the Moon was covered by a (dust-covered) shield of water ice, for which he had many astute arguments but in this respect he was wrong. Dobbins retorts that measurements of the infrared radiation emitted by the Moon already existed in his time, indicating that lunar
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By joining the
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A much debated question at the time was that of changes on the Moon. Again and again alleged changes on the Moon surface based on volcanism or lunar atmosphere were reported which had always been rigorously rejected by Fauth as errors of observation.
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Fauth's map of the Moon was the last and largest ever published by a single researcher by telescopic observation of the Moon, leaving aside Fauth's direct predecessor, the disputed 300" (7.62 m in diameter) map published 1951 by Welsh engineer
126:(1844–1914) from Cologne, Germany, claimed the formation of a new crater called "Hyginus N", and Krieger later reported a change in "Hyginus N1" which were all denied by Fauth. These debates soon turned into polemics and personal attacks.
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Philipp Fauth's area of work was the classical astronomy in the visible light spectrum, being primarily of an observational and descriptive nature, and was directed in particular to the Moon and its cartography, the so-called
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with excellent color fidelity, "the largest astrotelescope of
Germany south of Potsdam" and thus one of Germany's most powerful telescopes, for which he built a new observatory just south of the previous one.
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Hermann and published by Olbers-Gesellschaft in Bremen. Experts found a clear decline in quality between those sheets still drawn by the father and those by the son after his father's pencil sketches.
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who made use of contributions from other authors and found a harsh appraisal e.g. by E. Both: "Neither positional nor artistic quality was at all commensurate with the quantity of detail represented"
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Comparison of Moon crater
Copernicus as drawn by Philipp Fauth in 1932 und photographed by Lunar Orbiter 4 in 1967. The small double crater at the bottom of the pictures is named after Fauth.
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was published. Even if Fauth was only named as editor of the book, he contributed a more-than-insignificant part of the writing and brought order to Hörbiger's somewhat woolly thoughts.
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1939, at the age of seventy-one, Fauth received a honorary professor recognition for his almost fifty years of scientific work at the instigation of Chief of SS
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Fauth built and operated a total of four observatories in
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who developed a elaborated theory about the composition of the Solar System and its formation, the glacial cosmogony or
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whereupon he was put to work in a Munich school. In the following time he used (among others) the telescopes of the
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Bad Dürkheimer Persönlichkeiten im
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compiled photographic maps of the Moon with coordinates and contour lines, including also the far side of the Moon.
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In 1937 Philipp Fauth sold his private observatory at GrĂĽnwald to the national socialist (NS) research association
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temperatures were above freezing at noon sunlight exposure. – Icy moons are not at all unusual, the
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Issue 9), Institut fĂĽr
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-89241-008-9.
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Issue 9). Institut fĂĽr
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Beobachtungen der Planeten Jupiter und Mars in den Oppositionen des Jahres 1896/97
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in the same scale of 1:1 million in eight years work by a 22-member staff.
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Today it is consensus that in fact the very vast majority of reports about
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on the Moon after him, lying about 40 km to the south of the large
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Epic Moon – A history of lunar exploration in the age of the telescope
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were thoroughly investigated in 2022/23 and could not be validated.
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Ciel et Terre, Vol. 57 (1941), p. 434. (obituary in French)
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Bequest Philipp Fauth, N18, Landesbibliothek Speyer
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356:Palatinate Academy for the Promotion of Sciences
867:Philipp Fauth - Der letzte groĂźe Mondkartograph
580:, Sky & Telescope (1965), Oct., pp. 202–210
578:J. Astronomical Scrapbook: the Fauth moon atlas
16:German elementary school teacher and astronomer
756:Philipp Fauth: Last of the Great Lunar Mappers
728:Philipp Fauth – Leben und Werk (Life and Work)
567:(Moon atlas), Olbers-Gesellschaft Bremen, 1964
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471:Der Mond und Hörbigers Welteislehre
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485:(Our moon – how to read it), 1936
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447:The Moon in Modern Astronomy
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552:A History of Lunar Studies
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177:lunar astronautical charts
563:P. Fauth (posthumously),
449:, in Engl. language, 1908
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855:"Fauth" on the Moon Wiki
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831:German National Library
770:Hockey, Thomas (2009).
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434:Was wir vom Mond wissen
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86:J. Hieronymus Schroeter
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162:exploration program
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