Lunar Observing

In this lab, you will get a chance to spend some time looking at the Moon. You will identify a collection of types of geolgical features, then find their names (and, yes, pretty much everything on the Moon has been named by now). The directions for this lab are pretty straight forward (read through it before coming, anyway). Still, a couple of points:

Don't bother looking for a crater with terraced walls. I think that they are too hard to spot.
Don't look for a rille, either. Same reason.
In part IV, pick two objects you are interested and draw them as best you can. They should be recognizable in your sketchs. They should also be different kinds of objects (don't do two simple craters, for instance).

There is a lunar globe on the observatory deck for you to use to identify the feature names. If you don't get them all identified at the observing session, visit my office. I have a large lunar map on my wall. (I know, geek! geek!).

John Weiss

Last modified: Sat Jan 12 16:14:51 MST 2002