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You can actually tell that the Moon is our nearest neighbor. The changing appearance of the Moon is shown and discussed through photographs of the kind you can take yourself. It is shown why lunar craters, seas and oceans are roughly round. It is also shown how to record eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
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Clark, J. (2015). Earth’s Nearest Neighbor: The Moon. In: Viewing and Imaging the Solar System. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5179-2_6
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