๐ŸŒ• Tonight on the Moon

Andromeda Observatory, Woodlands Galaxy CC ยท what to point at along the terminator
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The Moon at 8:30 pm

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Hover or tap any crater or sea for its name & story. North up ยท Mare Crisium side (lunar east) on the right โ€” matches binoculars; most telescopes flip or rotate this. Gold rings = tonight's terminator features. Libration ignored (ยฑ8ยฐ).

โญ• On the terminator tonight

๐ŸŒŠ Also worth showing โ€” well-lit tonight

๐Ÿ“– Why the terminator? โ€” 20-second docent script

The terminator is the sunrise/sunset line. Along it the Sun sits just above the lunar horizon, so every crater rim and mountain throws a long black shadow โ€” that's where the Moon looks three-dimensional. Away from it, under high sun, the same terrain looks flat and washed out. On the rooftop Takahashi Sky 90, start at ~40ร— to frame the whole disc, then push the eyepiece higher on the features listed above. The 30 cm reflector in the dome resolves rilles and craterlets on steady nights. A full Moon has no visible terminator โ€” switch the story to the bright ray systems of Tycho and Copernicus instead.
โ† Night-sky dashboard ๐Ÿ”ญ Telescope guide
Phase, terminator position (selenographic colongitude, approx. ยฑ2ยฐ) and feature visibility computed in your browser for 8:30 pm SGT on the chosen date โ€” works offline. Feature positions compiled from the IAU/USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ยท lunar theory โ€” P. Schlyter ยท Andromeda Observatory, Singapore.