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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300 inch map of the Moon
Scale 1: 456 000
Moon — map
Photo: LPOD Sep15 2008.
Cartographer: H Percy Wilkins, "the last traditional selenographer"
Editions: Early edition with hand lettering, later editions with sans serif and grid.
South-up orientation. Orthographic projection.
300 inch map of the Moon First edition, 1946. Third edition, 1951, revisions in 1952, 1954.
25 map sheets, Scale 21.6 miles per inch.
Compiled from personal observations starting in 1909.
The 300-inch edition with north-up orientation. Neil Armstrong and Dr H P Wilkins at the Royal Geographical Society, London. (source)
Also in: "Selected Lunar Charts", International Lunar Society, 1944
Copy dedicated to E. Whitaker at LPL Whitaker papers.
