How to make the observations?
Observations
During the observations you can fill the Observational Sheet. In the Observational Sheet you can introduce data about the time of your observations, about the calculations of the height of the Moon above the horizon, draw the phases of the Moon and report the observations some maria, craters and mountains. You can calculate the size of suggested features and the height of mountains. After observations and calculations you can send the Observational Sheet to the Observational Archive (moonwalkers@eaae-astronomy.org). The Observational Archive will present the information about your observations (name of participants, country, school and degree, time of observations, size calculation of the observed features) on the Moonwalkers Project's website.
Every clear night you have to observe:
1. The phases of the Moon
2. The lunar maria
3. The lunar craters
4.The lunar mountains and peaks
5. Transient Lunar Phenomena
We propose that you observe some of the objects from the lists and that you calculate their sizes.
The list of the maria:
Latin Name | English name |
Mare Anguis | Serpent Sea |
Mare Australe | Southern Sea |
Mare Cognitum | Sea That Has Become Known or Known Sea |
Mare Crisium | Sea of Crises |
Mare Fecunditatis | Sea of Fertility |
Mare Frigoris | Sea of Cold |
Mare Humboldtianum | Sea of Alexander von Humboldt |
Mare Humorum | Sea of Moisture |
Mare Imbrium | Sea of Showers or Sea of Rains |
Mare Ingenii | Sea of Ingenuity |
Mare Insularum | Sea of Islands |
Mare Marginis | Sea of the Edge |
Mare Moscoviense | Sea of Muscovy |
Mare Nectaris | Sea of Nectar |
Mare Nubium | Sea of Clouds |
Mare Orientale | Eastern Sea |
Mare Serenitatis | Sea of Serenity |
Mare Smythii | Sea of William Henry Smyth |
Mare Spumans | Foaming Sea |
Mare Tranquillitatis | Sea of Tranquility |
Mare Undarum | Sea of Waves |
Mare Vaporum | Sea of Vapors |
Oceanus Procellarum |
The list of the craters:
Lagrenius, Petavius, Furnerius, Cleomedes, Geminus, Endymion, Hercules, Macrobius, Aristoteles, Eudoxus, Manilius, Albategnius, Ptolemaeus, Alphonus, Arzachel, Theophilus, Cyrrilus, Abulfeda, Apianus, La Caille, Werner, Aliacensis, Tycho, Copernicus, Eratostenes, Archimedes, Aristillus, Mersenius, Vieta, Cassini, Helicon, Euler, Lambert.
The list of the lunar mountains and peaks:
Montes Pyrenaeus, Montes Caucasus, Montes Apenninus, Montes Alpes, Montes Carpatus, Montes Teneriffe, Pico.
The list of features with reported TLP Associations:
Agrippa (crater), Alphonsus (crater), Archimedes (crater), Aristarchus (crater), Aristoteles (crater), Atlas (crater), Alphonsus (crater), Bullialdus (crater), Calippus (crater), Cassini (crater), Censorinus (crater), Clavius (crater), Cleomedes (crater), Copernicus (crater), Eratosthenes (crater), Fracastorius (crater), Gassendi (crater), Grimaldi (crater), Herodotus (crater), Sinus Iridum, Kepler (crater), Lambert (crater), Linné (crater), Manilius (crater), Mare Crisium, Menelaus (crater), Mons Piton, Mons Pico, Picard (crater), Plato (crater), Posidonius (crater), Proclus (crater), Promontorium Laplace, Riccioli (crater), Schickard (crater), Taruntius (crater), Theophilus (crater), Timocharis (crater), Tycho (crater), Zagut (crater).