Moon - Unaided-Eye

Date: 27 March 2007 U.T.

Time: 1:15 U.T.

Instrument: Unaided-Eye

Temperature: +55 F (+13 C)

As the above sketch shows, a telescope is not always necessary in order to make observations of other worlds. North is up and lunar east is to the right in the sketch.

Predictions called for bad seeing, wind, and increasing clouds; but meanwhile the sky was mostly clear so I decided to skip out on setting up a large telescope and instead make a quick, unaided-eye observation of the Moon. After all, it's often said that one can see more on the Moon with the unaided-eye than one can see on Mars with the aid of a telescope.