5 Interesting Things To See On the Moon 

The first thing I looked at when I bought my first telescope was the Moon and I was blown away by it’s beauty. And now after two years I can still be amazed when I look at the craters, mountains and surface details. There is so much to see and it never gets boring. Thanks again for the tips in this video.

I'll never forget my first view of the moon through a telescope. I just bought a book to help me identify what I see and photograph. Great video Jason.

WOW! These 5 locations just brought it so much closer. Thanks so much! I just recently picked up a Celestron Firstscope, and I immediately fell in love with the Moon's surfaces. I knew immediately that I seriously need to upgrade to an 8"...or 36" Dobsonian reflector. I guess immediately following that upgrade I will need to start shopping for a used space shuttle, or any second hand alien craft the government might be willing to part with. Excellent channel here. Excellent channel. Your eyepiece videos are very, very helpful for me, as are all your videos I have seen so far. New subscriber a few days ago. Much appreciated!!

perfect video to watch while I wait for the moon to get in place so I can test my first barlow ever! (i got a svbony metal 2x for my TS 80)

Good video. I like how you point us to easy targets, setting us up for success.

Hey Jason my first view of the moon through my Vixen custom 80m refractor in April 1994 and I'll never forget what I saw. I must admit I'm not a real moon observer but I like to see its craters etc. The moon isn't a main study for me but its nice to see. I see a rabbit on moon or even head of T rex dinosaur. Great targets to see and your favourite! I've took great shots of moon with my Samsung s21 ultra phone at 100x and wow they are amazing as I just put phone on tripod then zoom 100x. How well you know your way around the moon? Great video and 5 targets to see on moon and stay safe my friend! Clear skies too!

I really love little content creators like you who make better videos than most populair astronomy channels. Love the spots chosen here (:

I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up man.

As for Grimaldi and the transient lights, NASA produced a document on anomalous events on the moon. It is called Lunar Transient Phenomena - LTP Report. NASH technical report TR R-277 and produced by Barbara M. Middlehurst, Jaylee M. Burley, and Patrick Moore. I would add a link but RU-vid does not post when you do that. It is available online.

Nice video Jason. Also great to see that your channel is really growing! Keep up the good work!

A honorable mention would be the Aristarchus plateau, a plateau near Aristarchus crater. Aristarchus is a wonderful crater on its own, it's the brightest, it's got some structure in the crater walls and a central peak. Aristarchus has one very bright ray to its left, but its ray system extends far enough to reach that of Kepler's and Copernicus'. The plateau has a different color from the surroundings, it is more orange like Mare Serenitatis than Oceanus Procellarum which has a blue tint to it. On the plateau itself is a valley, shaped like snake and ending with a feature called the "cobra head". Inside this valley is another, smaller valley. A rille! To the left of Aristarchus is Herodotus, a much older basalt floored crater which makes for interesting contrast between the two. To the right: Prinz, the remains of a crater similar to that of Sinus Iridum but smaller in scale. Above it is a set of multiple, parallel rilles, reminiscent of claw marks. Surrounding that is Montes Harbinger, the peaks of what was once highland terrain, but later got buried in lava over a long time. There's also some domes in the mare region to the north of Montes Harbinger, those domes are only visible under good lighting conditions. What makes Aristarchus really interesting is the lunar transient phenomena reported over centuries of its observation. If I recall correctly in the 1890s a "vapor column" was detected, rising from the bottom of the valley in the direction of Herodotus. Many others reported bright, colored spots in the region. In fact, one third of all TLPs have been reported to have happened on the Aristarchus plateau.

Nice! I have looked at and studied moon features, but never bothered to learn much about the names and boundaries of the individual features. Not sure why but you singling these out and telling a bit about each makes the same features that I have observed in the past much more intriguing and now a place rather than just areas with more noticeable features - Thanks!

WOW! AGAIN. Another Very Informative Video. Especially for beginners and beginning "Back Yard" Astronomers. - Thank You Sir.

Another great video, thank you so much Jason, really anxious to go see the moon.

Hi, very helpful, great video. Kind regards.

I took notes .. thanks !

Great video thanks Am learning lots from these uploads thank you From Salford 🎉

Copper Knickers.... made me smile too Jason. Proper Dad joke.

I love your tutorial videos, you explain everything in layman’s terms. Keep up the good work 👍

Great video Jason 👍 Greetings from Australia🇦🇺

great video jason, keep up the good work

Great video Jason, thanks for share.

+1 for the algorithm Thanks for the video, very interesting!

Awesome Video Jason!! I have Seen Most Of These Objects. They never Get Old. I need To Check Out The Grimadi Feature. Its Something I Have Never Tried!! Plato Crater is Stunning For Sure, one of My Favourites!!

I often look at the Apennine mountains where Apollo 15 landed. My favorite crater is Theophilus in the Sea of Nectar...

Excellent video!

Another great video Jason! Very interesting

I’m about to go down the rabbit hole of ‘transient lunar phenomena’ now!

I'm surprised tycho crater didn't come up on your list

Great video Jason!!

Thanks!

Hi Jason, just found your channel a few days ago and I am finding your vids very helpful to me. I have had an 8inch reflector scope for a very long time but really didn't know what I was doing ,but having fun all the same .I watched your mirror cleaning and collimating vids, and hey presto I now have a very clean, well collimated telescope now ready to go on to my NEQ6 mount! I live in Gippsland Victoria Australia and have wonderful dark skies to explore. Keep up the great work as am sure these vids are very helpful to very many aspiring astronomer's like me, cheers Brian

very nice presentation and happy we found it. my wife and I just turned 60 and we were looking for a new hobby and bought a telescope, and quickly realized that it is not as easy as it looks. Appreciate the tip about viewing the full moon makes perfect sense. Thanks again

Really enjoying your videos Jason - they have given me some great tips and pointers so far!

Always nice to take the Moon in Jason.👍

Nice! I'll try to see these on my next telescope night!

Good information and enjoyable to watch (as always)... keep up the good work....thank you

Excellent picks. Distinctive. Plus, Mt. Huygens, the Moon's Everest is in the Lunar Apennines. Easier on the eyes to look at a partial phase

My God.i can't believe i've never seen that football player before!

Great choices of lunar landmarks! Just for info, the Latin "mare" has two syllables (pronounced "mah-re").

Great video! Can't wait for warmer nights. We get so few nights when it's nice weather and cloud wise. 😃Cheers from Newfoundland

Quite new to the hobby and find your videos really very useful. Thanks and keep up the good work 👍

When looking at Mare Crisium, don't forget Proclus with its fan-out ejecta, and when looking at Grimaldi, give Riccioli with its two-colored floor a try.

Copper-nickers 🤣Honestly never thought of that before! Brilliantly presented video Jay! I especially like Plato with its silky smooth looking crater floor. With a small telescope if would make any plasterer proud, and at higher powers and resolution you start to see it's actually peppered with smaller craters. Bit of a theme of the Moon I know :D

Crazy how our angle of the moon is so different

Hello Mr. Jason.. I love these videos.. you are so amazing and explaining very well.. all the best Mr. Jason.. god bless you.. I'm from Sri Lanka..

This is my first time on this channel!! I am 51 years old and just getting into astronomy and looking at the night sky with a telescope and I love it!! I liked and subscribed and looking forward to seeing more videos!!

one of my favorite thing to view on the moon is Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel

Hi Jason, Another cracking video mate, always great to watch. Never knew the moon was so interesting and great tip about viewing it when it's partially visible, never would have thought of that. 🤔👍 Just quickly, could you recommend an erecting eyepiece for my skywatcher 200p please? And finally... "Copper knickers!" Loved it!!! 🤣😂🤣😆🤣

Hello there! I've been binge watching your vids lately lol. And I just want to ask could I possibly see all or maybe some of the featured moon features with the gear that I have? I have here a: D-114mm / F-500mm reflector; A Barlow lens; and A collection of 6, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25 lenses. This gear was left by a guest at my friend's inn and he gave to me to figure things out so here I am binge watching your vids haha. Thankss for the vids, - from the other side of the globe.

I seen the moon tho my Meade 6ins telescope I was amazed how much detail I cud see I never get fed up seeing the moon 💯

The moon is indeed very interesting. I made my own 60mm achromatic telescope and saw the moon . The craters are amazing to look at.

Never looked at the moon much. Do deep space photography. Just bought a Schmidt Cassegrain. Will take a look for these.

You forgot to talk about the little green men waddling around.

This video would have been complete if you mentioned the "Aristarchus Crater". This bad boy is the brightest spot on the moon, first time I saw it I thought I found life on the moon 😂

perhaps you can do a video of your favorite lunar features.

the moon never gets boring to observe, eye on the sky always 🔭👍

Jason, did you do the pic of PLATO by yourself? What equipment did you use for that? I´m fiddling around with different scopes and cams, but yet i didn´t get the surface that smooth...

Pretty sure Mare Crisium isn't the only isolated one, seeing as there's Mare Humboldtianum, Mare Marginis, Mare Smythii, Mare Australe and Mare Orientale all of which are separate from any other mare or each other. Though you could make the case Mare Crisium is the only easily visible isolated mare, since the others can get obstructed by not-so-favorable librations.

I can only use my telescope at weekend due to work and it`s clear all week then cloudy at weekends for 6 weeks now. I want to try out my SVBony 105. Even made a remote focus adjuster using a 180 degree servo motor and arduino controller and loads of glue.

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is that the tin can finder you made jason?

Any McDonalds seen up there yet on the Moon? They seem to be everywhere. Just kidding. Thanks for the video and information in what to look for.

OK, so I did look at the Moon first, but the most breathtaking vision was when I first saw the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

I have sky watcher 130mm and really want to look at the planets, what eye piece would be good please 🙏

The other problem with viewing at full moon is it's just too bright. Tried it. Ouch.

Hi Jason, I've the Sky-Watcher Explorer-200P telescope and would like to ask you if you know where I could get an erecting eyepiece that's for the spotter scope that comes with this model? Thanks for your help. James.

It's a shame that my local council have been using LED street lighting in my town, and introduced a lot of light pollution. In the 80's as a kid, I used to lie in the park at night gazing at the night stars. There seemed to be so many, and bright. Now, you struggle to even see Orion.

5 interesting things to see on the moon , #1 , on the back side , the first inter galactic McDonalds , #2 , the remains of the one and only russian cosmonaut , #3 , the cheese factory , it's huge , , #4 the Intergalactic space and science museum , #5 don't forget to shop at the Space Force PX duty free store ...

If you turn your first pic of the moon 90° counter clockwise it looks like a dinosaur i always ask my girls if they can see the dinosaur in the moon because we live in different places now.

Why not fill the frame with your great photos and do a voice-over? Is it necessary to maintain the visual of yourself talking throughout?

"Mare" is pronounced "Mah ray".

Miles….what’s a mile?

It seems you got the style and guts to describe my posts . Or maybe not , one more in the cue .

But can you see the American flag?