The Southern Star Hemisphere

The far southern sky, gathered into one ornamented disc.

Chart: Atlas Novus Coelestis
Plate: Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe
Astronomer: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Date: 1742
Held by: Published Nuremberg · David Rumsey Map Collection

Hemisphaerium Coeli Australeas mapped 1742

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Format

The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

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$29.00

The story

The southern sky was the last frontier of the star atlas — invisible from Europe, filled in only as ships carried astronomers below the equator. Doppelmayr gathers that far hemisphere into a single magnificent disc, its stars threaded through the newer constellations the voyagers named: the Peacock, the Toucan, the Telescope, the Southern Cross. Engraved at colossal size and framed with a Baroque cartouche, it is the grand companion to the northern heavens — the half of the sky most of the world's mapmakers had never once seen with their own eyes.

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A window onto the heavens, in your home

The Southern Star Hemisphere printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Southern Star Hemisphere framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Published Nuremberg · David Rumsey Map Collection — the work is centuries out of copyright.
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

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