selenography

And the study of the Moon's surface features may be called "selenography."

However, it was not until the end of the 15th century when serious study of selenography began.

The volume 'served its purpose of stimulating interest in selenography'.

Selenography is the study of the physical features of the Moon.

He also built an observatory on the estate to pursue his interest in selenography, or mapping the Moon.

Selenography is the scientific study of the moon's topography.

"Strange," Grey muttered, leaning forward beyond the screen to stare directly at the black and white selenography under him.

Moon quakes are almost as rare, and selenography is exact enough to predict them with a high degree of accuracy.

Advancing the field of selenography (the geography of the moon)

He is skilled in cartography as well as selenography, the skill of mapping the Moon.

Most Lunarians know little selenography.

Today, selenography is considered to be a subdiscipline of selenology, which itself is most often referred to as just "lunar science."

Selenography is the fourth LP from the instrumental post-rock group Rachel's.

Her tutor suggested working in the area of selenography, particularly on the problem of developing a uniform system of lunar nomenclature.

Selenography with Polaroids by Tim Rutili (Sidebrow Books, 2010)

Galileo's engravings of the lunar surface provided a new form of visual representation, as well as shaped the field of selenography, the study of physical features on the Moon.

Indeed at the centre he depicted a selenography derived from his observations of the full moon in March 1649, using two telescopes, and around the crescent Saturn, Venus and Jupiter.

Selenography... was dedicated to king Wladyslaw IV and along with Riccioli/Grimaldi's Almagestum Novum became the standard work on the Moon for over a century.

When he was 14, he came into the possession of a copy of Selenotopographische Fragmente by Johann Hieronymus Schröter, and this influenced a lifelong interest in selenography, the study of the Moon.

A copy of that selenography was given later by Eustachio Divini to his hometown San Severino, his birth town he kept in touch continuously together with his brother Cipriano, a well-established painter in Rome.

In technical terminology, the word-stems seleno- (from Greek selēnē "moon") and cynthi- (from Cynthia, an epithet of the goddess Artemis) are sometimes used to refer to the Moon, as in selenography, selenology, and pericynthion.

Edmund Neison FRS (27 August 1849 - 1940), whose real name was Edmund Neville Nevill, wrote a key text in selenography called The Moon and the Condition and Configuration of its Surface and later set up an observatory in Durban, Natal Province.