Moon

Physiographic Map of the Moon (1961)

Physiographic Divisions of the Moon 1:3 800 000 Engeneering Special Study of the Surface of the Moon I-351 1961 USGS Robert Hackman, Arnold Mason It contains a detailed, new, English, geographic nomenclature for the near side of the Moon. These names and division was never used afterwards even though it is more coherent than the […]

Photomap of the visible side of the Moon (1967)

Фотокарта видимого полушария.СССР, Ю. Н. Липский, М., «Наука», 1967. Fotokarta Vidimogo Polusariya Luny Nauka, Moskva, 1967. 1:5 000 000 Yu. N. Lipskiy Sternberg State Astronomical Institute „Gerard Kuiper took two Lick Observatory photographs to Moscow, where a group of military cartographers workig under Lev Bugaevsky combined them with other images to create this photomap. Professor Yurii […]

Persian Lunar Photomaps (2005)

This map (photo) is by Ardakani (Ardekani), Hossein Haeri (2005) This map are available on the Persian Wikipedia and is a translation of the English version (to the right)

Penny Cylopaedia’s Map of the Moon (1863)

This map was republished in Josiah Crampton’s The Lunar World – its scenery, motions, etc. Edinburgh, 1863. Comment: The maps by Messrs. Beer Maedler are the most minutely accurate, but [this map] is better adapted for popular use” The nomenclature includes names of Terrae. The other illustrations are from Josiah Crampton’s The Lunar World. […]

Pallas Nagylexikon Moon Map (1893-1897)

Engraved by Posner Károly Lajos and Son Nomenclature: Hungarian, Latin Published in Pallas Nagylexikon, 1893-1897 The lexikon’s entry on the Moon (detail) Holdtopográfia. Már Galilei felismerte 1610. ujonnan feltalált távcsövével a H. hegyeit és azok árnyékait, s iparkodott megbecsülni a hegyek magasságait. A XVII. sz. közepe felé már találkozunk holdtérképekkel, de a tulajdonképeni Selenographiát csak […]

Nicholson’s Map of the Moon (1807)

Probably first published in “Nicholson’s Journal”, also know as “Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts”. Source: Young, T. 1807; A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts, vol I; London. Image courtesy of Ton Lindemann.

The Earth’s Moon (National Geographic)

Publisher: (c) The National Geography Society Feb 1969 / 1976 / 2003 editions Nomenclature: 1969: English/Latin, 2004: Latin Background map: Tibor Toth (1969) Font design: Charles Riddiford (same font as in other National Geographic maps) Design: Dave Cook, Richard Furno (Source: part 1 part 2) With complete index on the back side of the map. […]

Map of the Moon (Müller 1856)

Müller, J. 1856; Lehrbuch der kosmischen Physik – Atlas; Braunschweig Image courtesy of Ton Lindemann.

Morphologic provinces of the Moon (1981)

Karta-skhema tipov mestnostey Luny KP Florenskiy, AT Bazilevskiy, GA Burba, VP Volkovc AV Ivanov, RO Kuzmin, MA Nazarov, OV Nikolaeva, AA Pronim, OD Rodye, OI Yakovlev, AA Yarosevskiy; Ed. VL Barsukov Otserki Sravnitel’noj Planetologii Nauka, Moskva, 1981. Vernadski Institute.

Atlas of the Moon (1953)

Reference: Patrick Moore: Der Mond. Herder. Language of nomenclature: Latin Language of explanations: German Publication Date: 1953 Publication Place: Freiburg – Basel – Wien

Map of the Moon from Klimaszewski’s Geomorfologia (1978)

From the book: Mieczysław Klimaszewski: Geomorfologia Warszawa, 1978 edition Nomenclature: Polish

Map of the Moon, Novi Sad (1978)

Reference: Földrajzi Atlasz, Tartományi Tankönyvkiadó Intézet, Novi Sad – Cartographica, Budapest a school atlas made for Hungarian students in Vojvodina, Jugoslavia. Page: “A Naprenszer és a Csillagos égbolt” Language of nomenclature: Hungarian Language of explanations: Hungarian Map type: Shaded Relief Scale: 1:45 000 000 Publication Date: 1978 Publication Place: Novi Sad Jugoslavia – Budapest, Hungary Publisher: […]

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