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Gabrielle Flammarion’s maps of Mars (1920)

Gabrielle Flammarion’s maps of Mars (1920)

Rare sketch maps from one of the first woman astronomers. These maps record observations of clouds. Observer: Gabrielle Flammarion (G. Renaudot, G.C. Flammarion). Reference G.C. Flammarion 1920. Métérologie Martienne. L’Astronomie, vol. 34, pp.377-379

Mottoni’s albedo synthesis maps of Mars

Mottoni’s albedo synthesis maps of Mars

De Mottoni Y Palacios, G. (1975). The appearance of Mars from 1907 to 1971: Graphic synthesis of photographs from the I.A.U. center at Meudon. Icarus, 25(2), 296–332   Note: we display these maps north-up.

Trumpler’s map of Mars (1924)

Trumpler’s map of Mars (1924)

  Trumpler, RJ 1927 Observations of Mars at the opposition of 1924. Lick Observatory Bulletin 13, 387, Berkeley, plates 3-4. University of California Press, [1927], p. 19-45, 5 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm

Perepelkin’s map of Mars (1924)

Perepelkin’s map of Mars (1924)

Perepelkine, E. J. (1926). Observations, faites sur la planète Mars en 1924. Astronomische Nachrichten, 227(14), 231–238. Paper written in Leningrad, March 1925. Observations made at the Crimean University Observatory in Simferopol.

Thomsen’s map of Mars (1927)

Thomsen’s map of Mars (1927)

Thomsen, H 1927 Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association 27, London, pt 1, pl. 8

Polar cap change detection map of Mars, Briault (1915-16)

Polar cap change detection map of Mars, Briault (1915-16)

Jarry-Desloges, R. & Flammarion, C. 1923 Observations des Surfaces Planetaires. L’Astronomie, vol. 37, pp.459-468

Early maps of Mercury

Early maps of Mercury

A summary of Mercury mapping, early drawings reprojected uniformly into Mollweide projection. The last map is based on photographic studies in 1942-1948. (Note: This caption wronly identifies Venus as the mapped object. It is Mercury).   1942-1948 Dollfus, A 1889 Schiaparelli Astr. Nach. 1889 p 246 1897 Lowell Mem. Amer. o Arts and Sciences 1897 […]

Pickering’s map of Mars, 1926

Pickering’s map of Mars, 1926

Pickering W 1926 Report on Mars No 36. Popular Astronomy 31, p358

Thomson’s map of Mars

Thomson’s map of Mars

Ball’s Popular Guide to the Heavens, 1925

Bruno Bürgel’s Moon map (1924)

Bruno Bürgel’s Moon map (1924)

From: Bruno Bürgel: Aus Fernen Welten. 1924 Map is compiled from previous maps. Nomenclature is biscriptual Blackletter-Latin.        

Rudaux’s Map of the Moon Map (1925)

Rudaux’s Map of the Moon Map (1925)

Above: Courtesy of EA Whitaker Below: As reprinted in its Russian edition Astronomiya na ostrove nabltyudenni, Moskva-Leningrad 1935 Manuel pratique D’Astronmie With Russian Legend