Cellarius’ hand-coloured hemisphere — the most beautiful star atlas ever printed, and the one every zodiac image since has borrowed from.

Maker: Andreas Cellarius
Date: 1660
Medium of the original: Engraved plate
Credit: via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-02283

As chosen: 16 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 16 in
Outside size	17.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
16 x 16 in	180	Good	Edge to edge

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
20 x 20 in	144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 30 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

2,884 x 2,884 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 79, lights 230 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

62.4

Notes

Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
A plain margin is part of the file (16% of an edge): it prints as part of the picture

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