Paris lunar atlas
The Paris systematic lunar atlas was the first not drawn, but photographic lunar atlas . It was taken from around 1885 on the large Coudé equatorial reflecting telescope of the Paris observatory and published in 48 large-format sheets by Maurice Loewy and Pierre Puiseux in 1896 . The atlas represented the sharpest mapping of the entire surface of the moon that was visible from Earth to date .
The maps are arranged in 24 pairs of images, with each map section showing the same lunar region in the waxing and waning moon phases - i.e. H. with lighting from east and west, the selenographic-geological interpretation of the moon craters and grooves , volcanic domes and mountain systems received decisive impulses.
A follow-up work was the Atlas photographique de la Lune , which the same authors published in 1910 in 12 parts. On the equatorial constructed by Loewy , Puiseux took a total of around 6000 long-focal length images of the moon.
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Literature and Sources
- Josef Said: Focus on the moon . Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena 1962.
- Austrian Astroverein (ed.): Paris systematic moon atlas . Reduced photocopy, Vienna around 1970.
- Atlas photographique de la Lune (12 parts), in Google Books.