Moon Journal

The moon journal is a very simple thing.

Materials:

1 small notebook (3"x5" is fine)
1 piece large piece paper (constuction, butcher's paper, etc).

On the large paper sketch a panorama of the southern sky at the place you plan on viewing the moon. This diagram should just have the ground features (trees, houses, and other relatively perminent object). The ground features should take up no more that the bottom 10% of the paper. This is so you can put a mark where you saw the moon relative to the ground and put a date beside that mark. This is so you can look at the long term motion of the moon.

In the notebook you should record the weather (in terms of cloudyness), and if you see the moon sketch what the moon's shape. If you don't see the moon record that.

That's it. At the end of the observing period send me the notebook and panorama, nothing more.

David