Note: This class has been rescheduled since the printing of the course brochure. The new date is September 28.

Learn about the phases of the moon, eclipses, and the varied features that can be seen on the moon with the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes. Note the general areas of the Apollo landing sites. You will learn the differences between craters, basins, mare, valleys, domes, and rilles, and how best to view them and how they might have formed over the millennia. Some audience participation will reveal some of the mechanisms of crater formation. The talk will culminate with a virtual fly in and around Crater Tycho!

About the instructor: Dr. Albert Lamperti

A retired professor of anatomy and cell biology at Temple University School of Medicine, Dr. Lamperti taught histology and neuroanatomy to first year medical, dental, and podiatry students for 37 years. He also taught astronomy for non-science majors at Chestnut Hill College for five years. Astronomy is an avid hobby, a welcome distraction from work, and now a welcomed avocation in retirement.