Last week the moon was perfectly placed outside my bedroom window and, to add icing to the cake, it was not so bright as to produce much glare. Not bad considering it was nearly full. This meant only one thing - I had to grab my
astronomy binocular and have some fun. The crater Tycho was unusually well defined and free of glare in the
Nikon 10x70 and by steadying the binocular on a tripod, I began to explore other craters in the vicinity. Crater Schiller, due to its elongated shape jumped right out, even at only 10x in the binocular. If you have a binocular, any
binocular, you might be very surprised at just how much you can see on the
moon. Seeing Schiller was like taking a 238 thousand mile trip without leaving my bedroom. Great gas mileage, too.