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Monoceros, Canis Minor, and Atelier Typographique[edit]

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Original – The constellations Monoceros, Canis Minor, and the obsolete constellation Atelier Typographique, from a set of 1825 star charts.
Reason
Besides being the only image we have that gives a good idea what stars were in Officina Typographica / Atelier Typographique (the Bode one is really low resolution and heavily cropped), it's out best image for the traditional image of Monoceros. Plus, doing restoration helps keep me calm when I'm worried about something.
Articles in which this image appears
Atelier Typographique, Monoceros, Canis Minor
FP category for this image
As before, we don't have that good of one to choose from.
Creator
Sidney Hall, restoration by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:32, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Why don't you collect/restore them all, and nominate them as a set? --Janke | Talk 08:04, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • The Library of Congress does not actually have the complete set of 32 images, and a 30-or-so image set of restorations is likely excessively large, isn't it? Maybe I'm wrong. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:10, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • I was thinking about nominating all constellations from A Celestial Atlas (a total of 26 plates) instead, which is one of the finest and potentially featurable star atlases in my view. However, some plates there currently need tilt correction. Brandmeistertalk 14:07, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
          • I agree those are very pretty, but they're also very, very faded and light, which means they're unlikely to show up very well for most thumbnail uses. I'll try restoring one and see if it helps. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:06, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - 20 images didn't hold you back for Puck of Pook's Hill, did it? That being said, these have value individually as well. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:26, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - Nice restoration.-Godot13 (talk) 03:44, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Per Godot13..Herald talk with me 07:34, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: Julia\talk 01:28, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Monoceros, Canis Minor, and Atelier Typographique.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:39, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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