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Les lunes. Jean-Jacques Salvador, 1995-1997

Je voulais montrer le visage familier de la lune et garder la précision des images scientifiques que l’on connaît.
Les astronomes ne photographient jamais la pleine lune car, sa surface est alors trop lisse. J’ai donc choisi de la reconstituer quartier par quartier.

Jack Ryan. Moon/Color Spectrum, 2008
Archival digital print

More: Spectrum Study and Rainbow Moon

Johannis Hevelii (Johannes Hevelius) Selenographia sive lunae descriptio, 1647

Johannes Hevelius (also known as Johannes Hewel or Johann Hewelke, 1611-87), son of a wealthy Danzig patrician family, was one of the leading astronomers of his time. At first he studied jurisprudence in Leiden, before he took over his father’s brewery in Danzig, but soon spent all his time with astronomy.
In 1641 Johannes Hevelius set up an observatory in the roof of his Danzig home, which, at that time, was the largest observatory in Europe. He built high-quality astronomical instruments, which he used for topographic examinations of the sun and the planets, particularly the moon. With his main work “Selenographie” (1647), whose splendid illustrations he engraved himself in copperplate, he produced a first, long-standing topographic study of the moon, which does not only contain a detailed description of the moon’s surface, but also a description of the moon phases and the moon’s librations. The Latin term “mare” for moon spots can be traced back to his works.
Johannes Hevelius presented a depiction of the entire celestial sky in his “Prodromus astronomiae”, which was published posthumously in 1690.

The Moon by John Adams Whipple, 1857–60

In December 1849, John Whipple made his first photograph of the moon, a daguerreotype taken through the telescope at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge. Although he did not make the first lunar photograph in America, in terms of accuracy and aesthetics Whipple produced what were internationally recognized as the most sublime photographs of the moon. This study, made with his partner James Black, recalls the maxim in astronomy: the more clearly one can see an object in space, the more beautiful it looks.

via: Metropolitan Museum

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Rainbow Moon
Date: 7 Dec 1992
This false-color mosaic was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by Galileo’s imaging system as the spacecraft flew over the northern regions of the Moon in 1989.

The part of the Moon visible from Earth is on the left side in this view. The color mosaic shows compositional variations in parts of the Moon’s northern hemisphere. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium impact basin toward the bottom of the picture. Blue to orange shades indicate volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them.

via: NASA

Galileo Galilei. Sidereus Nuncius Magna (Venice, 1610).
Leaf 10 verso with illustrations of the Moon, engraved

On November 30, 1609, Galileo Galilei first turned his telescope toward the moon. He noted the irregularities of the crescent face, and made a drawings to record his discoveries. Over the next eighteen days, he made more drawings and from these chose four for his revolutionary ‘Starry Messenger.’ With the publication of this book, an astonished public learned that the moon was a cratered chunk of elements and not a globe of quintessential perfection.

Found: here

Lei non sa che la guardiamo by Bruno Munari

Found: here

The heavens and their story (1908)

Author: Maunder, Annie S.D
Subject: Astronomy
Publisher: London, Culley

via: archive

Apollo 14 EVA Maps from Apollo 14: science at Fra Mauro. 

found: here

“I’m going to back off from you,” said Astronaut Roosa as he pulled Kitty Hawk away from Antares. then he added “And we’re free” as the craft separated. He took this photograph of antares before it began its descent toward the Moon.

Apollo 14: science at Fra Mauro.

found: here

found: here

Apollo 14: science at Fra Mauro.

Published 1971 by Office of Public Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. in [Washington .
Written in English.

found: here

annafeather:

struck the mother lode in the collage pile today. i think i’ll just frame these.