The Catalog of Planetary Maps.
Sources: The research that led to this catalog was supported by Fulbright Hungary Grant No. 1222202, awarded to H. Hargitai for research at USGS Astrogeology, Flagstaff, Arizona (advisor: Trent Hare), and by the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography (advisor: Kira Shingareva). Most of the data is based on the inventory of the map library of USGS Astrogeology.
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Photos: Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are by H. Hargitai. Several photographs are from the USGS Astrogeology Map Library and Lowell Observatory, both in Flagstaff, Arizona. Several photographs of Soviet maps were taken at MIIGAiK, Moscow.
Contact: The catalog is curated by H. Hargitai, ELTE, Budapest, hargitai.henrik@btk.elte.hu.
Referring work: Schimerman LA NASA Lunar Cartographic Dossier. Vol 1. Defense Mapping Agency, Aerospace Center, St Louis ASF, MO.
42 maps
Photographic Lunar Atlas (PLA)
1: 1 370 000
#412
Map 412
1: 5 560 000
#377
300 inch map of the Moon 100 inch reduction
1: 1 368 000
#367
Unser Mond
1: 4 000 000
#363
Named Lunar Formations, vol II (Atlas of the Moon, Map of the Moon)
1: 3 480 000
#361
Map 361
#354
Great 200in Map of the Moon
1: 687 000
#347
Map 347
1: 7 610 000
#343
Karel Andel: Mappa Selenographica
1: 5 700 000
#331
60 inch map of the Moon
1: 2 280 000
#297
A map of the Moon
#301
Map 301
1: 1 780 000
#245
Mond-Atlas entworten nach den Beobachtungen an der Pia-Sternwarte in Triest,I Band
#228
Atlas Photographic de la Lune
#229
Lick Observatory Atlas of the Moon
1: 3 620 000
#223
Atlas von 25 Topographischen Spezialkarten des Mondes
1: 1 000 000
#225
Map of the Moon
1: 7 560 000
#188
Flammarion - Popular Astronomy
1: 5 470 000
#155
Mondcharte 25 sectionen un 2 erlautersungstafeln
1: 1 780 000
#143
(overview map)
#142
Map 142
#128
Lunar Map Zone II, Zone IV
1: 695 000
#121
Map 121
#102
Karte des Mondes. Mittlere Libration. Map of the Moon in a mean state of libration. Carte de la Lune, dans l'etat de moyenne libration
1: 8 980 000
#97
General Karte der sichbaren Seite der Mondoberflaeche
1: 10 900 000
#94
Die sichtbare Seite der Mond-Oberfläche bei voller Beleuchtung
1: 3 680 000
#90
Topographie der sichtbaren Mondoberflaeche
1: 3 570 000
#68
Map 68
#37
Genuina Corporis Lunaris Facies
1: 12 400 000
#34
Map 34
1: 6 440 000
#29
Icon Lunaris
#21
Tabula Selenographica: Figura pro nomenclaturae et libratione lunari
1: 12 400 000
#22
Tabula Selenographica: Selenographia P Fransisci Mariae Grimaldi Soc Iesu
1: 12 400 000
#20
Pleni Lunium, Luna Crescens
1: 12 100 000
#18
Selenographia sive lunae descriptio
1: 12 400 000
#16
Map 16
1: 14 500 000
#8
Phasium Lunae icones, quos Anno Salutis 1634 et 1635, pungendo ac sculp. aquis fortis Claud. Mellan Gall. praesentibus ac flagitantib. illustrib. viris, jussendo et perexscitio.
1: 16 600 000
#5
Map 5
1: 70 900 000
#4
Lunae Varietas
#3
Map 3
#2
Moon drawing from the Siderius Nuncivs
#1
Map 1