It is interfaced with “Cartes du Ciel” freeware developed by Patrick Chevalley. It is designed to be easy to use and in particular “in the field” according to the particular needs of an observation, but also to be able to study “in the room” the Moon and its relief. This program carried out by Patrick Chevalley and Christian Legrand makes it possible to visualize the appearance of the Moon for any date and time, to pilot telescopes with computerized mounts on the Moon and to study in detail the lunar formations using a database of over a million entries and a strong image library of nearly 9,000 photos compiled by Christian Legrand. We thank you in advance for your support. So that the benefit of your support comes back to you anyway, we will allocate these funds as much as possible to the purchase of computer and/or astronomical material or library resources usable for the improvement of VMA or the realization other astronomical products or actions for amateur astronomers (Books, other software, conference equipment, observation and shooting equipment, etc.).Īnd to support us, you can also acquire the SD card. If you wish to be at the origin of such a donation, go to the page "How to make a donation?" For more details. To meet your wishes, we felt that we could not refuse voluntary donations. ![]() First of all, remember that it remains above all voluntary and free and we are not asking for any financial aid for this action which only reflects our respective astronomical passions: study of the Moon for Christian Legrand and astronomical programming for Patrick Chevalley.Ĭlearly, this production requires costly periodic upgrading of the computers and software we use. Many users have asked us how they can support our work. We hope this will make your observations and studies of the Moon even more exciting. To celebrate this important anniversary and considering the upcoming resumption of lunar missions, we have added a large number of new features in this version 8 at the level of modules, databases, textures & layers, and images. For its twentieth anniversary, we are pleased to present to you the new version 8.0, of the AVL, the most complete computer-based Moon atlas available. In 2002 appeared the first version of VMA. You can now download the updated version 8.1 to fix that. Unfortunately a bug was found in the original data provided with VMA 8.0. New: To (re)discover new uses of VMA, Christian Legrand leads a series of pages entitled “Les astuces de l'AVL (VMA tips)” on the dedicated "Passion Lune" forum ( In french, sorry). Note the circle to delimit the Impact Basin. The main screen of ATLUN © with the new LRO BIG SHADOWS texture on the left and the “Altitude” overlay on the right.
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