Have an excellent long weekend everyone (if you are in the US), we all deserve it!
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H/T Simon Ilyushchenko for the brilliant image!
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1809 ‘Chart’: "Southern Celestial Hemisphere On The Plane Of The Equator:..
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“On which is carefully defined the Boundaries of the Conftellations & all the Stars to the Sixth Magnitude inclufive.
From the Aftronomical Catalogue of the Rev. M. Wollaston, F.R.S”
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https://www.atlascoelestis.com/Woll%20base%20per%20tavole.htm <-- details of the text and map(s) for astronomy students (in Italian)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_celestial_hemisphere <-- shared Southern Celestial Hemisphere wiki page
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My other ½ – an astrophysicist working currently in space weather – gave me this map/chart… Now I have to find someone to preserve and frame it - sheesh! ~smile~
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Nostalgia – Cartography & Projections On Network TV’s ‘West Wing’
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https://youtu.be/UPaca-SrvEk?si=vhY84Z-_KopnQ083
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Cool to see map geekiness pop up on network TV drama a few years back
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• I am NOT a fan of the the Galls Peters - thinking that the Equal Earth Projection (https://equal-earth.com/) is vastly superior technically and ‘aesthetically pleasing’
• The 1569 Mercator projection was NOT designed as a ‘tool of cultural oppression’, that is a persistent myth - but rather was "... the standard map projection for navigation because it is unique in representing north as up and south as down everywhere while preserving local directions and shapes...”
• As a Trekkie, I also love that the actor John Billingsley - who plays Dr Flox - is the ‘lead scientist’…
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