>We, of course, got a great look at the almost-full moon, including seeing some of the mountains along the dark edge and also a crater with a small mountain in the middle (supposedly from volcanic activity after something hit the surface).
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>That was a really fun and educational evening.
Be sure to take a look at the moon when it is NOT full, too - for instance, when half the moon is visible. Many more details can be seen then, along the terminator, because of the long shadows.
The terminator is the dividing line between "day" and "night".
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
