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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Karte der sichtbaren Seite der Mond-Oberfläche
Scale 1: 18 000 000
Map of the visible side of the lunar surface
Moon — map
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
Bemerkungen.
Die Oberfläche der sichtbaren Mond-Hemisphäre ist so dargestellt, wie man sie in der mittleren Libration im astronomischen Fernrohr vor sich hat. Für den Anblick im terrestr. Fernrohr oder mit freiem Auge ist das Blatt umzudrehen.
Der Durchmesser des Mondes ist = 468 g. M = 0,27234 des Erdhalbmessers; sein Flächeninhalt = 658685 g. □ M. = 1/14 der Erdoberfläche; sein körperl. Inhalt = 6373500 g. Cub. M = 1/49,6 des Cubik-Inhalts der Erde. – 1 Grad des Mondaequators = 4,058 g. M.
Der Flächengehalt des
Oceanus Procellarum 90000 g. □ M.
Mare Imbrium 16000 „
„ Crisium 3000 „
„ Tranquillitatis 5500 „
Mond und Finsternisse.
Bearbeitet von L. Ewald, 1857.
Darmstadt,
Verlag von Jonghaus und Venator,
Kartogr. artist. Anstalt.
Notes.
The surface of the visible lunar hemisphere is shown as it appears at mean libration in an astronomical telescope. For the view in a terrestrial telescope or with the naked eye, the sheet must be turned upside down.
The diameter of the Moon is 468 geographical miles = 0.27234 of the Earth’s radius; its surface area is 658,685 square geographical miles = 1/14 of the Earth’s surface; its volume is 6,373,500 cubic geographical miles = 1/49.6 of the Earth’s volume. One degree of the lunar equator = 4.058 geographical miles.
The surface area of:
Oceanus Procellarum: 90,000 square geographical miles
Mare Imbrium: 16,000 square geographical miles
Mare Crisium: 3,000 square geographical miles
Mare Tranquillitatis: 5,500 square geographical miles
Moon and eclipses.
Edited by L. Ewald, 1857.
Darmstadt,
Published by Jonghaus and Venator,
Cartographic artistic institute.