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WEINEK'S LUNAR ENLARGEMENTS—Selenographers will be glad to hear that Prof. Weinek proposes to publish a Lunar Photographic Atlas, which will contain an accurate and artistic representation of the whole visible surface of the moon. The materials that will form the basis and bulk of this atlas have been mainly derived from the series of negatives of the Lick Observatory, which have been enlarged twenty-four times. The maps will be printed by the phototype process direct from Prof. Weinek's enlarged glass diapositives, and will be constantly under his supervision and control during their reproduction by the Art Photographical Institute of Carl Bellmann in Prague. The proposed scale of the atlas will be 4 metres to the diameter of the moon; there will be in all 200 maps 26 × 31 cm., and each sheet will give the selenographical latitude and longitude for the centre of the picture, and also the selenographical longitude of the terminator for the latitude 0°. This will greatly facilitate the arrangement of the sheets according to the relative positions of the lunar objects they portray. The publication of such an atlas as this, which requires a great deal of outlay, cannot be undertaken unless a considerable number of subscribers are forthcoming. Prof. Weinek appeals in the first instance to all the observatories of the world to become subscribers for the ten issues, each to contain twenty lunar landscapes. There should be no difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of applicants, as such a useful and epoch-making publication in selenography should be in the possession of every observatory.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 56, 233 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056233a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056233a0