To the Moon!

A ‘Harvest Moon’ rising over the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains as seen from Pasadena, CA in September 2016.  A ‘Harvest Moon’ is the full moon nearest the start of Fall, or the autumnal eq...

Apollo 50th Anniversary: An Opportunity to Celebrate Past, Present, and Future Lunar Exploration 

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Moon at roughly five miles per second.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the landing of humans on the Moon, the Night Sky Network has new Moon handouts and activities. 

Presentation slides about the Apollo 12 mission

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission and the Moon’s Role in the Solar Eclipse

Bright Venus seen near the crescent Moon on July 15, 2018. 

Save the date! International Observe the Moon Night 2019 is on October 5. 

This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2019, at hourly intervals. The imagery is based on actual dat...

Mark your calendars: a series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on Dec. 3, 2017, Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31, 2018.

This video explains how our moon creates a solar eclipse.

Tips to evaluating your International Observe the Moon Night event

The Moon orbits the Earth in the months prior to the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.  

LRO: Lunar Topography Lithograph

This image shows the locations of many spacecraft that have landed on the moon. 

Set to Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, this visualization uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow near sunrise and sunset on the rugged lunar su...

Make your own International Observe the Moon Night flyer or poster 

Moonrise over the Syr Darya river.

Lunar Image Processing Tutorial, written by Robert Reeves

Now you can have all the dates and times for all the Moon phases for the year at your fingertips.

Astronaut David R. Scott, right, commander of the Apollo 15 mission, gets a close look at the sample referred to as "Genesis rock."

The six Apollo lunar landing sites are all relatively near the equator on the side of the Moon that faces the Earth. 

What does the other side of the Moon look like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth? This video answers that question.

Moon viewing ideas for the whole family!

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