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The Moon is the most visually complex object in the night sky, and thus has been a great challenge to both cartographers and imagers. And yet there have been great successes in representing the Moon as both an object of scientific scrutiny and of beauty. Here is a collection of maps and atlases - some rarely seen - of interest to selenographers - students of the Moon!
LUNAR GLOBES: Globes are almost magical when their spherical shapes are in your hands. They are also practical in showing spatial relations among all landforms on the Moon. And with a globe the feature of interest is never on the edges of different map sheets! Visit the Lunar Globe page!
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LUNAR MAPS1824 Lohrmann - 4 sheets 1837 Beer & Madler - 4 sheets (cut into 22 sheets) 1876 Neison - 22 sheets 1878 Schmidt - 25 sheets 1878 Lohrmann - 25 sheets 1835 Blagg & Muller - 14 sheets 1935 Fauth - 6 sheets 1955 Wilkins & Moore - sample 1961 Hackman & Mason: Engineering Special Study of the Moon 1964 Fauth: 196x-6x Herring: Maps of the Lunar Libration Zones 1971 Wilhelms & McCauley: Geologic Map of the Near Side of the Moon 1972 Rukl Maps of Lunar Hemispheres. Astrophysics & Space Science Library 1990 Rukl: Hamlyn Atlas of the Moon |
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PHOTOGRAPHIC ATLASES1896-1909 Observatoire de Paris: Atlas Photographique de la Lune 1897-7: Lick Observatory: Observatory Atlas of the Moon 1903 Pickering: The Moon 1960 Kuiper et al: Photographic Lunar Atlas 1960 Miyamoto & Hattori:: Photographic Atlas of the Moon 1964 Alter: Lunar Atlas 1964 Callatay: Atlas of the Moon 1964 Miyamoto & Hattori: Photographic Atlas of the Moon, 2nd Edition 1967 Kuiper et al: Consolidated Lunar Atlas 1971 Bowker & Hughes: Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon 1985 Viscardy: Atlas-Guide Photographique de la Lune 1999 Cook: Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas 2000 Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator 2002 Widdowson: Moon Phase Maps 2004 Bussey & Spudis: Clementine Atlas of the Moon |
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