Alika Herring Moon Articles in Sky & Telescope

Alika Herring was an extraordinary observer, artist, mirror maker and musician. From the beginning of the space age (1958) through the 1960s he contributed quarterly articles and drawings of features in the Moon. These classic articles ideally should be online but in the meantime here is an index, listed by crater name, so you can find them in a library with a long run of S&T back issues. As a student, I worked at the Lunar & Planetary Lab in Tucson at the same time as Alika and was privileged to talk with him. We observed together with the Kitt Peak 84" telescope when Ranger 9 impacted the Moon. Our goal was to look for dust thrown up by the impact, but we saw none. But we did have a memorable view of the Moon with a huge telescope! Near the end of his life Alika was profiled in S&T: Master Optician, Master Observer, by Richard Norton, May 1995, p. 81-86.

Arago, July 1960, p. 34

Beer and Feuillee, January 1966, p. 58

Bessarion B, April 1966, p. 245

Bessel, January 1960, p. 169

Boscovich, January 1961, p. 39

Burg and Lacus Mortis, April 1960, p. 357

Cassini, July 1959, p. 515

Copernicus, The Central Peaks of, March 1967, p. 187

Davy Y, April 1959, p. 334

Encke, October 1966, p. 239

Flamsteed, July 1962, p. 36

Gambart B and C, October 1964, p. 243-245

Gassendi, February 1959, p. 206 H

erodotus. November 1967, p. 340-341

Hesiodus, October 1961, p. 217

Hortensius, January 1962, p. 33

Jansen, July 1963, p. 38

Jansen B, July 1966, p. 49

Kepler, July 1965, p. 50-51

Kies, May 1961 p. 281

Krieger, July 1964, p. 49

Lansberg D, 1964, p. 60

Lassell, July 1961, p. 33

Linne, April 1967, p. 259

Lubiniezky, January 1963 p. 41

Lunar Libration Chart, January 1964, p. 55

Marius, January 1965, p. 59

Milichius, April 1965, p. 252

Parry and Bonpland, November 1959, p. 32

Pico, January 1967, p. 60

Pitatus, October 1958, p. 637

Piton, October 1965, p. 251

Plato, April 1964, p. 250  

Plato: An Unusual Observation of, September 1965, p. 184

Posidonius, July 1958, p. 464

Prinz, October 1963, p. 219

Ramsden, April 1963, p. 221

Rumker, October 1960 p. 219

Tobias Mayer, August 1967, p. 119 (Valentine Dome)

Plateau near Linne, April 1962, p. 212

Wallace, October 1962, p. 218  

Surface of the Moon, V. A. Firsoff, November 1961, p. 288 (book review)