Planet Map is a software tool developed to automatically map planetary images obtained by amateur astronomers into cylindrical
maps and polar projections in a massive way allowing hundreds of maps from hundreds of images with little to no human action.
The software is developed in python and makes use of the Elkano geometry library for Python developed
by Jorge Hernández-Bernal. Elkano is a software soon to be released on the public domain. PlanetMap has been
developed by Mikel Sánchez Arregi with a research contract funded by Europlanet 2024.
The software works well for Jupiter images as well as images of Mars and Venus. Analyzing image files with several images of a planet may run into troubles if the planet images are placed too close together. Current data includes only Jupiter maps from January-May 2022 and January-November 2023. We are currently computing Jupiter maps for other years as well as Mars and Venus maps. Those maps will be soon available on this site accessible through tables like the one below.
| Year | ||||||||||||
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| 2023 | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2022 | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2021 | January | February | March | April | May | June | July |
| Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | January | February | March | April | May |
