MOON TOUR
EARTHSHINE
See the beautiful ‘old Moon in the new Moon’s arms’
Take a quick look at any map of the Moon and you will see that it is covered with many fascinating features, some even visible to the naked eye. On any night when our planet’s natural satellite is visible in your sky, you will be able to look at it through a telescope, or even just your trusty binocular, and peer down into the dark depths of its dramatic craters, see sunlight bathing the jagged peaks of its magnificent mountain ranges and roam its dark seas of ancient, frozen lava.
Sometimes, though, the Moon itself is the star of the show. The sight of a bloated full Moon rising from behind the trees on a warm summer evening is quite magical, and the silvery ‘Cheshire Cat’ smile-like crescent of a young Moon hanging above the western horizon in the hours after sunset as the sky darkens is so striking that it often makes everyone stop what they’re doing and just stare up at it.