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When your new telescope was unpacked and set up on its mount, what did you do? The answer to this question is the same for many – pointed it towards the Moon. Any telescope or pair of binoculars can do that awe-inspiring thing and take us, while we stand on Earth, to the surface of a different world.
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). The Eyes of the Moon. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_1
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