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Moon (Moon)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Oct 18 23:50:00 2013 UT   Obs. no.: 1896

This evening I was able to watch the penumbral eclipse of the moon. It was very easy to see the darkening of the moon with my naked eyes but my 10X50 binoculars really made the view of the eclipse great.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -8)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 23 01:30:00 2013 UT   Obs. no.: 1891

On both Saturday & Sunday nights, I was able to observe the super moon which was at it's closest point to Earth in the moon's orbit. Since I enjoy watching full moons rise, I was able to easily see the largeness of this super moon. It was great to see this!

Moon (Moon, est. to be in Taurus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Apr 16 00:00:00 2013 UT   Obs. no.: 1888

On the night of 4/15, my friend Joe & I observed a nice triangle in the sky of the crescent moon, Jupiter & Sirius. This triangle covered a large swath of the western sky. A nice sight.

Moon (Moon)
Observer: AndyS (e-mail: andy@skipole.net, web: http://astronomycentre.org.uk)
Instrument: 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector   Location: Todmorden, Yorkshire, England
Light pollution: light   Transparency: poor   Seeing: poor
Time: Sat Dec 10 16:20:00 2011 UT   Obs. no.: 1878

End of Lunar Eclipse. Low cloud prevented earlier view!!

Moon (Moon)
Observer: Justin (e-mail: justinleetyler@yahoo.com, web: http://www.justinleetyler.com)
Instrument: 7.35-mm binoculars   Location: Boston, MA, United States
Light pollution: moderate   
Time: Sat Nov 12 01:00:00 2011 UT   Obs. no.: 1877

Mare Tranquillitatis

Moon (Moon, est. mag -12.2, est. to be in Gemini, Est. RaDec @zenith)
Observer: Anish Mangal (e-mail: anishmangal2002@gmail.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Light pollution: severe   Transparency: poor   Seeing: poor
Time: Thu Dec 31 19:20:00 2009 UT   Obs. no.: 1842

Just observed the partial lunar eclipse under absolutely horrible seeing conditions (only the Moon and 5 stars visible) with my 8 inch Dob. The umbra was 3/4th of the way up-to Tycho from the limb and the penumbra stretched a little beyond it (covering the southern highlands).

Moon (Moon, est. mag -6, est. to be in Taurus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue May 26 00:30:00 2009 UT   Obs. no.: 1824

Last evening my brother Anthony and my friend Steve Borer observed the one day old crescent moon. In Steve's Dob we were still able to observe craters on the small lighted side of the moon. Since the moon was well up from the horizon we were able to observe it for more than a half hour and at high power we were able to see the moon waxing in size right before our eyes.That was the first time I was able to see the crescent moon wax like that before my eyes.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -5, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Apr 26 00:25:00 2009 UT   Obs. no.: 1821

This evening, my friend Steve Borer, my brother Anthony Amato and I met at the West Haven beach to see if we could see the 21 hour old crescent moon. After fifteen minutes of trying to locate this crescent, we were rewarded with a view of one of the most slender crescent moon any of us has seen. We were easily able to see Saber's Beads which are also known as Bailey's Beads which are seen during total solar eclipses. In both the 6" dob and binoculars the crescent was something to behold. We also had the plesure of seeing the planet Mercury which was a waning crescent. Mercury was actually higher in the sky than the moon was. Finally we observed Saturn whos rings are almost edge on. We were able to see four moons of Saturn including Titan and Rhea. Titan looked like an orange disc because of its thick atmosphere. Another great night of astronomy.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -6, est. to be in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Mon Oct 6 23:00:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1801

This evening my brother Anthony and I observed the famous X that appears on the terminator of the moon one day before first Quarter. Anyone can see the X on the moon with even low power on your scope. Just be sure to observe the moon on the terminator one day before first quarter.

Moon (Moon)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: Stratford, Connecticut, United States
Time: Thu May 15 23:00:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1784

This evening my friends Steve, Mike, Rob and I went to a traveling NASA exibit. The main feature of the exibit was a lunar rock that was brought back to earth from our Apollo astronauts. This moonrock was polished by NASA and it had a smooth glossy look about it. The highlight of our visit was we were allowed to touch and feel it all we wanted to. I've seen lunar rocks before but I've never felt one before. After we were finished we looked up into the sky and saw were the moonrock came from. The moon.

Moon (Moon, est. mag 78x)
Observer: John Kramer (e-mail: geminijk@gmail.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector   Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue May 13 03:30:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1782

Montes AlpesVery cool range with a staight/valley wall to the north , vallis alpes i think.lots of small mountains, shadows etc.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -4, est. to be in Gemini)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Wed May 7 00:00:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1780

This evening after playing bocce ball with my friends, we observed the slender crescent moon. It was a little sliver of a moon but what surprised me is there wasn't to much earthshine to the moon. Maybe tomorrow evening there will be more earthshine.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Feb 21 03:01:00 2008 UT   Obs. no.: 1763

This evening my friends Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer, Joe Cseh and Bob Masud observed the total lunar eclipse. At first the sky was partly to mostly cloudy as the eclipse entered its partial phase. The skies continued to clear as it moved toward totality. About 15 minutes before totality the right and upper parts of the moon showed a blue color. This was probably caused by ozone in the atmosphere. During totality the moon had a deep orange red glow with the central regions of the moon being dark. Using the Danjon scale I rated the eclipse as L= 2. Another thing we noticed was the penumbra was rather easy to spot. The penumbra began in the lower left hand part of the eclipse all of us saw it quite easily. Finally very cold temperatures forced us indoors and now we must wait until December 2010 for the next total lunar eclipse.

Moon (Moon, est. to be in Aquarius)
Observer: Mark D. Schneider (e-mail: markd_s@yahoo.com)
Instrument: binoculars   Location: Garden Grove, California, United States of America
Light pollution: none   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Aug 28 10:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1704

THIS Lunar eclipse was simply STUPENDOUS this morning and was probably well worth the ALL-night session.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -11, est. to be in Scorpius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Jul 29 02:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1686

I read a very interesting article in Astronomy Magazine which showed how anyone can see some color on the moon with just binoculars. With this in mind my friend Steve Borer and I took a crack at this. Our first target was Mare Serenitatis which contains the bright lunar ray of the crater Bessel. When you stare at this bright lunar ray in binoculars the ray begins to take on a golden color. Then when you look at other lunar rays, they all look white. The golden lunar ray of Bessel seems to make Mare Serenitatis glow a golden yellow. Now move your binoculars to Mare Tranquillitatis which adjoins Mare Serenitatis. When you stare at this Mare you will see a tinge of blue covering the whole mare. Anyone with an ordinary pair of binoculars can do this. Just take your time, relax and enjoy.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -5, est. to be in Serpens)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Mar 3 23:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1628

This Evening my friends Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike, Joe Cseh, Steve Borer and I oberved the total lunar eclipse after the clouds cleared away. The eclipse was already in totality when we first observed it. With the naked eye, the color of the moon looked to be rather gray. Because of this, I rated it on the Danjon scale as L=1.4. In my 10X50 binoculars, the moon had a ruddy color to it with the left part of the moon being white . As the moon went into the partial phase, we noticed the earth's shadow was more curved than during other lunar eclipses.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -6)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Sat Jan 20 23:00:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1614

This evening, My friend, Joe Cseh and I observed the conjunction of the crescent moon and Venus. The moon and Venus were about two degrees apart and the earthshine on the moon was very obvious. We were able to see the lunar mares just from the earthshine. With my 10X50 binoculars, we were able to see Saber's Beads on the lower cusp of the moon. From now until late spring, the one and two day old crescent moon will be fairly high in the sky so this is the time to look for Saber's Beads. Also, there was a star that was only about a quarter of a degree above and to the left of the moon. That's a lot of action for such a small area of the sky.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -1)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 30-mm other   Location: Glenside, Pa, USA
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Sat Jan 20 22:45:00 2007 UT   Obs. no.: 1615

On my way home from visiting my parents on Saturday, I noticed a very slim crescent moon only a few hours old about 4 West of Venus. I pulled over and took a snapshot with my 30mm camcorder. I zoomed in to about 25x. The picture is posted on my webpage.

Moon (Moon)
Observer: Stephen Saber (e-mail: saberscorpx@qconline.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/saberscorpx/home.html)
Instrument: other   Location: No location given
Time: Tue Oct 31 00:00:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1576

Saber's Beads:May 2006 offered the possible sighting of a Lunar crescent aged less than 24 hours. While I've spotted dozens of younger/very old slivers, the cooperative weather and clean horizon enticed me to make the still-challenging effort.My mounted 15x63 binoculars first captured our moon aged 20h10m. Mercury, shining 3 away, may as well been an arrow pointing to it.Fifteen minutes deeper into twilight I could just glimpse the young moon naked-eye.As the sky darkened the binoculars also revealed curiously familiar staggered brightness peaks along the setting limb. On this occasion, the first thing I thought of was a more subtle, but unmistakable resemblence to the 'string-of-pearls' effect seen at second and third contacts during a total solar eclipse.Swinging my 90mm Mak on the sliver at low-power showed the same phenomena along with an associated low-altitude scintillation.Very cool.After my report of this observation, fellow astronomers Curt Renz and Carol Lakomiak nominated the term 'Saber's Beads' to describe the phenomena which, by August, had caught fire and grabbed the attention of the folks at Astronomy magazine.So how had this obvious and beautiful phase gone unmentioned for so long?I see at least three possibilities; timing, desire, and recognition.Virtual Moon Atlas software simulations show the best aesthetic window to be 18-22 hours on either side of New Moon (libration will also vary the Beads' design). How many clear shots at this exact window does one get over, say, 5 years? Not many.Also, veterans in search of record/near-record thin crescents are often waiting for the challenge of something in the 10-16 hour range to test their skills (as mentioned, I even almost passed on May's relatively 'old' sliver).In addition, except for the celestial players involved, witnessing an eclipse and hunting a Lunar sliver are very different endeavors. The mindset during the separate events may simply preclude immediate recognition of the separate phenomenon.While the solar eclipse counterpart is initiated by direct sunlight seen through our moon's valleys, Saber's Beads are first detected by the earliest angular illumination of the mountains. In any case, it feels good to give Lunar observers and imagers something new, challenging, and interesting to watch for.Happy hunting, and enjoy![Stephen Saber has received the Astronomical League's Master Observer award and is author of the 'Starhoppers Guide to the Herschel 400'.He curses the clouds from his home in Rock Island, Illinois.]

Moon (Moon, est. mag -10, est. to be in Taurus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Oct 10 03:30:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1569

Last night, I observed the moon next to the pleiades. As the time went on, the moon looked like it was getting closer to the Pleiades. I believe some parts of the country may have seen the Pleiades occult the moon.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -9)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Milford, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Sep 30 00:00:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1567

This evening, My friends, Joe Cseh, Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike, Leo Taylor and I got together to do some observing. We started with the moon were we found a strange geological sight near the terminator. This area of the moon looked exactly like a horseshoe print in the lunar soil. We do not know the name of the feature so we called it Amato's horseshoe. In the horseshoe, there is a small crater that my field guide refers to as B. The feature is located in Mare Tranquillitattis. In 20X80 mounted binoculars, we observed the Alpha Perseus open cluster which is so large, it filled the field with stars. The double cluster was its usual great self with one cluster slightly larger than the other. After checking out both M31 and M32 we observed something none of my friends observed before. It is called the diamond ring asterism. We aimed our 20X80 binoculars at the pole star Polaris. Next to the north star were six faint stars that made a circle that looked like a ring. The north star is situated so that the ring of stars now look like a diamond ring with the north star as the diamond. Finally, we saw about eight or nine meteors during the session. Another great night of observing.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -7)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Sep 24 23:00:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1566

For the last two evenings, My friends, Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I observed the crescent moon in order to try to see what is called Saber's Beads. Saber's Beads can be seen at the horns of crescent moons that are no more than two days of either side of the new moon. These beads are caused by mountain tops reciving sunlight while the rest of the moon remains in darkness. The mountain tops look like beads along the horn of a slender crescent moon. Saber's Beads are caused by the same mountain tops that cause the more famous Bailey's Beads during a total solar eclipse. All that is needed to see Saber's beads is a slender crescent moon and a pair of binoculars.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -12.8)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Aug 9 03:45:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1553

Last night, I observed the moon's crater tycho with my 127mm MAK. In the immediate area around Tycho is a dark ring. This dark shadow like ring forms an almost perfect circle around Tycho. This dark circle can easily be seen in modest size telescopes. I am going to take a look at it again tonight.

Moon (Moon, est. mag -6, est. to be in Taurus)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 10-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Apr 2 01:30:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1518

This evening, my friend Steve Borer and I observed the moon occulting the stars of the Pleiades with our binoculars. We had to wait a good hour before the cluds cleared away. Finally, when the skies cleared, the moon was right on the verge of occulting one of the stars. For about 30 seconds, the star seemed to sit on the dark limb of the moon and then it suddenly winked out. It was quite a sight. But, the best was yet to come. A bright fireball shot over our heads from Gemini to Taurus at exactly 8:42 PM EST. Anyone in the northeast looking at the occultation had to of seen it. It was much brighter than Venus and I estimated it was -7th magnitude. It also left a bright smoke trail for about 10 seconds.

Moon (Moon)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 10-mm binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Mar 14 23:50:00 2006 UT   Obs. no.: 1510

This evening, I observed the Penumbral eclipse of the moon. With my 10X50 binoculars, I was able to see a grey shading on the moon's southern hemispere. I was able to observe the moon come out of the eclipse at about 7:20 PM. I could just barely see the shading with my naked eyes.

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