🌕 Tonight on the Moon

Science Centre Observatory, Jurong · what to point at along the terminator
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The Moon at 8:30 pm

Hover or tap any crater or sea for its name & story. North up · Mare Crisium side (lunar east) on the right — matches binoculars; most telescopes flip or rotate this. Gold rings = tonight's terminator features. Libration ignored (±8°).

⭕ On the terminator tonight

🌊 Also worth showing — well-lit tonight

📖 Why the terminator? — 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 — that's where the Moon looks three-dimensional. Away from it, under high sun, the same terrain looks flat and washed out. On the deck Celestron CPC / C6, start at ~80× to frame the whole disc, then go to 150–250× on the features listed above. The 40 cm in the main dome resolves rilles and craterlets on steady nights. A full Moon has no visible terminator — switch the story to the bright ray systems of Tycho and Copernicus instead.
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Phase, terminator position (selenographic colongitude, approx. ±2°) and feature visibility computed in your browser for 8:30 pm SGT on the chosen date — works offline. Feature positions compiled from the IAU/USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature · lunar theory — P. Schlyter · Science Centre Observatory, Singapore.
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