Moon

Darmstadt Map of the Moon (1857)

Moon and Eclipses Karte der sichtbaren Seite der Mond-Oberfläche Editor: L. Ewald 1857 Publisher Verlag von Jonghaus und Venator, Darmstadt Scale 1:18M South up Drawn by F Christmann, lithographed by von Wirtz, after Beer and Mädler. Courtesy Ton Lindeman

Alfred Sommer’s Map of the Moon (1879)

Dr. Alfred Sommer Source: The New Dominion Monthly January, 1879, 58-79 (56 & 65) The first Canadian moon map. Literature: R.A. Rosenfeld, “Dr. Sommer’s Moon: Philology, Cartography, and Oblivion”, JRASC 112, 1 (2018, February), 35-41.

Falk Verlag’s Mond (1968)

Mond / Moon / Lune 1:8M Calendar for 1969 South-up Dr. L. Hölzel

Cartographia Milano Map of the Moon (1988)

Publisher: Nuova Arti Grafiche Ricordi S r.l. 1988 Latin and Italian nomenclature 99×69 cm

Hammond Moon Charts (1966/69)

CS. Hammond and CO., 1966 and 1969 Background photo from ACIC Encyclopedia of Aviation and Space Sciences Map 49 x 71 cm. Courtesy Ton Lindeman

Ghirardi-Pasco-Verger Map of the Moon

Authors: Raymond Ghirardi, Xavier Pasco, Isabelle Surbès Verger Editions: Atlas de géographie de l’espace 1997, 1999 L’espace, nouveau territoire Atlas des satellites et des politiques spatiales. Belin, 2002 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space: Missions, Applications and Exploration. Cambridge University Press, 2003

Bruno Bürgel’s Moon map (1924)

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

Pulkovo Observatory Far Side Chart of the Moon (1961)

Goodacre’s Maps of the Moon (1910)

Copernicus LAC 58 (1961)

ACIC, 1st Edition, 1961. Source: Carder, R. W. 1962. Lunar Charting on a Scale of 1:1000000. In: The Moon, (Kopal, Z., and Mikhailov, Z. K., editors) IAU Symposium 14, Academic Press, pp. 117-129, supplement to the book

Generalized Photogeologic Map of the Moon (1961)

Hackman, Robert J. (research and compilation) Modified 1961 Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon Greyscale units, linework 1:9M (approx), originally compiled at 1:3.8M Prepared for the Office of the Chief of Engineers by the U.S. Geological Survey, as part of a joint program with the Army Map Service Source: AC Mason, RJ […]

Karta Luny (Shishakov and Bronshten 1967)

Map of the Moon: the nearside in telescopic view. 1967 1:5M cartographer I. I. Katyaev, ed. V. A. Bronshten in transverse (equatorial) orthographic projection on the basis of the Photographic atlas of the Moon by Kuiper (1960) and the catalogue (Blagg and Muller 1935). Description of lunar surface compiled by Shishakov V.A. (Contributor: Zh. Rodionova) Source […]

Explanation

Column name	Column description
Catalog ID (M)	N/A
Title	Title of map
Author	Name of mapper(s), or author, PI, map editor, illustrator, etc. with roles
Nationality	Nationality of author
Start date	Year when mapping began / or year or observation
Date of publication	Year of publication or completion of manusctipt (empty if not published yet)
Body	Target name (planetary body)
Online	Online references about the map
Projection	Projection of map. 2-hemisphere is shown here.
Scale	N/A
Orientation	Orientation of map [north up, south up] – only for historic maps (north: cartographic tradition, south: astronomical tradition)
Publication type	The type of work that contains the map. [standalone, journal, conference, atlas, book figure, book supplement, book plate, encyclopedia, multisheet, digital]
Type, purpose	Type of map purpose [generic, outreach, science, citizen, surface operation (pre mission), landing site (post mission), observer, opposition, index, reference, eclipse/transit/occultation] generic: not defined, outreach: maps for the general public made b
Primary Nomenclature	Laguage(s) of nomenclature displayed on the map [Latin, English etc., IAU, informal]. Latin for Latin nomenclature prior to IAU.
Ref (map)	Full reference of map publication or publication that contains the map
DOI	DOI number of map
ID (publication)	ID of map publication or figure number
Origin type	If this map is not original, the following codes are used: [L: language variant, N: new print, U: updated edition, C: copied / modified from another map, R: renovation map (digital version of paper map with slight changes), F facsimile. RP: republished in
Origin ID	Any maps that this map is based on or copied from. Database ID of original map.
Based on map	Name of mapper
Base (spacecraft, telescope)	Name of spacecraft / instrument
Original title	Title of map in original langage (if not English)
Publisher	Name of Publisher; manuscript or self-published. For journals and conferences, the name of the journal or conference.
Coverage	Coverage of map [global, hemispheric, regional, local, landing site, landing ellipse, traverse]
Target location	IAU name of target feature (if named) or near side, far side etc. (If nothing noted, it is global)
Country	Country of Publisher (original/translation)
Type, content	Type of map [photo, map, sketch map, drawing, globe, tactile, data]. Data for raster datasets. For vector data, see Feature DB. Drawing: no grid, scale, projection etc.
Image base	Base theme of the map [shaded relief, photomosaic, photo, none]
Theme	Theme of map [visual, albedo, radar, low sun, topography, elevation, geology, geomorphology, art, nomenclature reference, feature, landing site reference, opposition map, event (eclipse etc) etc.]. Low sun is optical photo with shadows and no albedo. Vis
Technique	Cartographic technique [imagemap, datamap, cartographic map, unit map, airbrush, pencil, line drawing/outline, contour lines, DEM, DIM, shaded relief / hillshading, raster data etc.]
Style	Details on style
Method	Method how the data was obtained
Mapping scale	Scale of mapping
Resolution	Raster dataset resoltion [m/pixel]
Short Reference	Short form of reference to the map publication
GIS / data	URL where GIS or original spatial data is
Data provider	N/A
Profession	Profession of author (for historic maps)
Designator	Sheet designator terms following Greeley and Batson (1990) Planetary Mapping. Cambridge University Press. – only if displayed on the map. First letter: target body, 5M: scale, 90/0 etc: center coordinates, OM – orthophotomosaic , T – Topographic data (nom
Control	Controlled, semi-controlled, uncontrolled
Note on control	Base of control
Series title	Title of map series
Number of maps (in work)	N/A
Number of quads	N/A
Quad ID	Quad ID (or quads IDs) contained on the map
Map Diameter	N/A
Map width cm	N/A
Map height cm	N/A
Map width px	N/A
Map height px	N/A
Base type	Type of instrument of observation of base data [naked eye, telescope, spacecraft, space telescope, lander]
Location of copy	Library or archive where manuscript or rare copy is kept
Ref (literature)	Reference – literature about the map, may be the source of data if the map is not available. Separated with # symbols.
Status (2017)	Status of mapping [complete, in progress, in review] (mostly for USGS maps)
Aim	Original aim of mapping, if available
Notes	Any comments, remarks [Long text, may be multiple paragraphs]
Secondary nomenclature	Other languages of the nomenclature
Nomenclature Notes	Remarks on nomenclature
Photo note	N/A
Reference frame	ID from RefFrames
web2	Online references about the map
web3	Online references about the map
web4	Online references about the map
ocentric/ographic	Map coordinate [planetographic, planetocentric]
N	N/A
S	N/A
W 360E	N/A
E 360E	N/A
W 180	N/A
E 180	N/A
W 360W	N/A
R 360W	N/A
fig1	N/A
fig1 caption	N/A
fig2	N/A
fig2 caption	N/A
fig3	N/A
fig3 caption	N/A
fig4	N/A
fig4 caption	N/A
fig5	N/A
fig5 caption	N/A
STATUS	N/A
Sum	$180