Earth-based Lunar Photography
A new era of lunar cartography began in the late 19th century when large Earth-based telescopes began photographic surveys of the Moon.
In the early 1890s, astronomer Maurice Loewy conducted the first major photographic survey of the Moon from the Paris Observatory. Loewy’s atlas, published between 1896 and 1904, featured 80 plates of the Moon which he had selected from 6,000 photographs that were taken by the observatory’s 23.6-inch equatorial coudé refractor telescope. The publication became the standard lunar atlas well into the 20th century.
Katika karne ya 19, enzi mpya ya uchoraji ramani ya mwezi ilianza wakati darubini kubwa za juu za dunia zilipoanza kuchunguza mwezi kwa picha. Katika miaka ya 1890, mwanasayansi Maurice Loewy alichukua picha za kwanza za mwezi kutoka kwenye kituo cha uchunguzi cha Paris. Atlas ya Loewy, iliyochapishwa kati ya 1896 na 1904, ilionyesha sahani 80 za Mwezi ambazo alikuwa amechagua kutoka picha 6,000 zilizochukuliwa na darubini ya 23.6-inch ya mhimili ya mhimili ya mhimili. Kwa hiyo, kitabu hicho kilikuwa kiashiria cha kutumiwa katika kutengeneza atlas ya mwezi hadi karne ya 20.