Astronomy Now's
MoonWatch
MoonWatch - a monthly tour of the Moon's features. Peter Grego takes a look at lunar observing history, examines the Moon's geology and topography, and describes some of the superb lunar sights visible each month through the telescope.
Crater Brown in the Moon's southern uplands (illo: Brown - PG)
The Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 (illo: eastern Mare Serenitatis - PG)
Surveyor 7 & Tycho (illo: Tycho - PG)
Oceanus Procellarum and the crater Billy (illo: Billy - PG)
Lunar domes and the dome cluster near Hortensius (illo: Hortensius & domes - PG)
Near limb Maria Humboldtianum and Orientale (illo: Mare Humboldtianum - PG)
Rima Cauchy, rilles and lunar faults (illo: Cauchy, Rupes & Rima - PG)
Gruithuisen and local mountains (illo: Gruithuisen & montes - PG)
The Moon's north pole and lunar ice (illo: lunar north pole CCD - PG)
Copernicus (illo: Copernicus - Fauth)
Reiner Gamma and lunar impacts (illo: Reiner Gamma - Clementine)
Kepler crater (illo: Kepler - Clementine)
The near-perigee full Moon (illo: full Moon - PG)
Lichtenberg and wrinkle ridges in Oceanus Procellarum (illo: Lichtenberg - PG)
Le Monnier and the Moon of New Year's Day (illo: le Monnier - PG)
February 1999
Illumination effects, Rupes Recta (illo: Rupes Recta - PG)
March 1999
Lunar domes, Rumker (illo: Rumker - PG)
April 1999
Lunar ray systems (illo: Messier - PG)
May 1999
Striation, "Mons Schneckenberg" (illo: Rima Hyginus & "Schneckenberg" - NASA)
June 1999
Josiah Spurr, lunar geologist (illo: Spurr's "alluvial fan" - PG)
July 1999
Apollo 11 site, lunar dust (illo: Statio Tranquilitatis - NASA)
August 1999
Eastern limb maria (illo: 8 day Moon - photo)
September 1999
Lunar geology time scale (illo: Wallace - PG)
October 1999
Walled plains, volcanic theory (illo: Schickard - PG)
November 1999
Moon rockets, Luna 2 (illo: Goddard - PG)
December 1999
A century of Moon mapping (illo: Mare Crisium - PG)
January 2000
Lunar bases (illo: Eratosthenes - PG)
February 2000
Lover's Moon (illo: "Kiss in the Moon" - Fauth)
