Lunar – Page 4 – British Astronomical Association

Maria and Oceanus

Latin Name English Name Latitude Longitude Diameter (Km) Mare Anguis Serpent Sea 22.6° N 67.7° E 150 km Mare Australe Southern Sea

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Timing the disappearance and reappearance of celestial objects at the lunar limb. Observing Programme What we do in the lunar

Maps Murray, John, Philip’s Moon Map (London, 2015) Sky & Telescope’s Moon Map (Cambridge, MA, 2007) Sky & Telescope’s Mirror-Image

Before the advent of the Space Age the study of our Moon was largely in the hands of amateur astronomers

This depends upon whether you have seen a coloured patch, a brightening, a flash or lightness in a shadow, as

The approach here is simply to compare imagery of the lunar surface taken many months, if not years apart, align

As you can imagine, over the past few centuries there have, from time to time, been observations of the Moon

Every astronomer is familiar with shooting stars in our night sky, and knows that these are the result of sand

By Dr Anthony Cook Introduction Conventional geologic wisdom suggests that the Moon is pretty much dead and that the bulk