Supermoon
I know even less about astronomy than I do about geology. But here and there, I pick up tidbits of information, reading an article in National Geographic, flipping through a book, or, quite honestly just using Google at times! Last night was a "Supermoon," occurring as the full moon coincided with the closest the moon has been to earth since 1948. (Yup, I Googled that. Not very scientific of me!) Basically, the supermoon gave me a chance to try out some lunar photography (new to me) and check out some maps of the surface of the moon. At least I used a book for that! In the photo above, the lunar crater Tycho can be seen in the lower right. The darker areas are "seas," called maria. The largest sea on the Moon is on the western (left) half, called Oceanus Procellarum. The two most obvious craters within this area are Copernicus, which is slightly larger, and Kepler, to the lower left of Copernicus....
