If you look up at the Moon this Thursday through binoculars or a small telescope, you may be able to see an unusual feature; ...
Luna skims by Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter as it grows from a thin crescent to just past First Quarter in the ...
As the phase of the Moon changes throughout ... If you have a telescope and the lighting is oblique (from the side, as is the case when the terminator is nearby), many tiny craterlets can be ...
George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part of NASA’s Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in an effort to examine the earth ...
Actually, the Moon is ... a good test for telescope optics! Visibility: A pair of binoculars is the minimum requirement to see these features. When: Look for them when the terminator is close ...