Chart of Mars Mercator Projection in true color 1877 N.E. Green in: Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society v. 44. p. 138, 1879. Black and white reproduction with higher resolition (source)   The colors are more subtle in this reproduction (source) Source Source Ledger, E. 1882; The sun, its planets and their satellites; London Image […]

Greek Moon Wall Map 2009 Greek nomenclature Editor: Aris Mylonas Publisher: PLANETARIUM of Thessaloniki Size: 98 x 67 cm Available at http://www.planitario.gr/xarths-selhnhs.html

The globe was made using Luna and Zond  images. The globe is exhibited at the Memorial Museum of Astronautics in Moscow. The far side contains ambiguous formations as well as two names that has not neen approved by IAU for these features: Kondratiuk (probably not existing as a landform) and Kibalchich (now named Herzsprung).  Mykola […]

Date of drawing: c. 1600-1603 Publication : 1651 William Gilbert, De Mundo Nostro Sublunari Philosophia Nova, Amstelodami (Amsterdam) (1651; reprint edn, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1965). The oldest known moon map with the naked eye, drawn around 1600 by Gilbert, but first published in his book from 1651. Nomenclature: latin, on the map Image and text courtesy of […]

Published in Franz Arago’s Sammtliche Werke. Leipzig 1856. This is not a map, but a biscriptural list of the Moon’s placenames

Cartographer: Casimir Marie Gaudibert „dressé sous la direction de Camille Flammarion par C. M. Gaudibert „ Publisher: Paris: Bertaux Note: Far side is used for gazetteer. Designed for telescopic observations (south is up) Based on Gaudibert’s map of 1887. Image: Austrian National Library Reference: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AC04847693