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A Month of Moon views

Lunar Landing Site Chart – click for larger versions. Courtesy Lunar and Planetary Institute

My photo of a three day moon. East is at the bottom. Mare Crisium is the egg-shaped feature on east limb.

Here’s my photo of a five-six day moon, near first quarter. East is at bottom here too. The middle [...]

September 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: how-to stargazing, The Shallow Sky | One comment

Chasing Galileo - fourteen-day moon

fourteen-day (full) moon

The full moon rises as the sun sets on the 14th day of the lunar month. A small telescope, such as the 70mm f.8.7 Televue Ranger I’m using for this series of sketches is a perfect instrument for full moon viewing. So are binoculars. The moon is [...]

June 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Chasing Galileo: Jane's Sketches | 3 comments

A day in the life of the moon

This was one of the first astronomy articles I wrote. It was published in the Sidewalk Astronomers newsletter about 20 years ago. My mom, Barbara Miller drew the little lunar phases which accompanied the writeup. I’ve scanned the original article and it’s linked at the bottom of this blog page. Here’s my [...]

May 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: The Shallow Sky | 2 comments