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Description

Scarce wall map, centered on a celestial hemispheric map, published by the Daily Mail.

The central image is ringed by diagrams and explanatory text. including:

  • Twenty Brightest Stars
  • Apparent Movement of the Stars
  • Relative Sizes of the Planets.
  • Reaching for the Moon
  • Phases of the Moon
  • Lunar Eclipses
  • Light years
  • Relative sizes of the Earth and Moon
  • The Moon
  • Milky Way
  • Earth's Orbit
  • How to use the Map

One of the notes states that "the above map is based upon photographs taken by the Russian Satellite, Lunik III in October 1959, as it passed above the far side of the moon," and that "approximately 10% of [the dark] side of the moon [is] not yet photographed."

Condition Description
Minor soiling along folds. One tape stain at top left.