EyePics: Volume 1 – The Moon

The Moon is a popular showpiece object for public star gazing sessions. It's familiar, easy to see, and packed with detail.

Unless you know your way around the Moon, it can be tricky to remember the names of the craters and other interesting bits of information. This guide is intended to be used at the eyepiece to help identify what you're seeing. Or perhaps better still, to help members of the public looking at the Moon through your telescope get an idea of what they're looking at.

EyePics: volume 1 – The Moon (v0.13, 2009 Jan) (PDF, 1.3 Meg)

The charts are drawn at half-day intervals, starting with a 2.5 day old Moon. On each chart, prominent features along the terminator are labelled. On the facing page, zoomed-in views of these features are shown.

Choose the chart that most closely matches the age of the Moon you will be viewing. You will probably need to refer to several charts to get the full picture.

By orienting the chart to match the telescopic view, you can point out details on the chart which can then be identified and seen "live" in the eyepiece

The current version (0.13, January 2009) of EyePics – The Moon covers lunations 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0 and 5.5.

Dates of New Moon (lunation 0)

Note: dates and times are given in SAST (= UT+2)

2011	2012
Jan 04, 11:03	Jan 23, 09:39
Feb 03, 04:31	Feb 22, 00:35
Mar 04, 22:46	Mar 22, 16:37
Apr 03, 16:32	Apr 21, 09:18
May 03, 08:51	May 21, 01:47
Jun 01, 23:03	Jun 19, 17:02
Jul 01, 10:54	Jul 19, 06:24
Jul 30, 20:40	Aug 17, 17:54
Aug 29, 05:04	Sep 16, 04:11
Sep 27, 13:09	Oct 15, 14:02
Oct 26, 21:56	Nov 14, 00:08
Nov 25, 08:10	Dec 13, 10:42
Dec 24, 20:06

2009	2010
Jan 26, 09:55	Jan 15, 09:11
Feb 25, 03:35	Feb 14, 04:51
Mar 26, 18:06	Mar 15, 23:01
Apr 25, 05:23	Apr 14, 14:29
May 24, 14:11	May 14, 03:04
Jun 22, 21:35	Jun 12, 13:15
Jul 22, 04:35	Jul 11, 21:40
Aug 20, 12:02	Aug 10, 05:08
Sep 18, 20:44	Sep 08, 12:30
Oct 18, 07:33	Oct 07, 20:44
Nov 16, 21:14	Nov 06, 06:52
Dec 16, 14:02	Dec 05, 19:36

/ph

Reader's comments

Posted by Carol B on Thursday, 2009 June 18 12:40.

What a nice surprise to find this download on the new site. At least we can focus on the Moon when depression sets in because of winter playing havoc with our deepsky intentions.

This is also a nice one for city dwellers that have to contend with light pollution. In some cities one can actually still see the Moon.

Let's hear your thoughts.

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EyePics: Volume 1 – The Moon

Dates of New Moon (lunation 0)

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