Lunar Observing Challenge 8

By Phil Sacco

Naked Eye Targets:
1. How did the Bay of Rainbows become a bay?
2. What is considered to be the first large impact basin on the earth side of the moon?
3. Name the two youngest large prominent craters on the moon.

Pickerings Naked Eye Challenge:
Can you see:
Can you see the slightly shaded area near the walled plain Sacrobosco? This is a rated 10 challenge....

Binocular Targets:
1. Crater Piccolomini
2. Crater Cassini
3. Crater Autolycus
4. Crater Albategnius
5. Crater Mitchell

Telescope Targets:
1. Craters Hesiodus and Hesiodus A - What is unique about these two craters?
2. Crater Regiomontanus - What unique about the central peak?
3. Crater Timocharis- What happened to the central peak in this crater?
4. Challenge: Crater Wargentin - What makes this crater different from most other craters on the moon?