Book of the Moon

Introduction: Why Be a Lunatic? My Father, The Moon and Me Types of Telescope Beyond Borders An Iconic Influence Moon 101: The Basics Why Is The Moon Called the Moon? The Moon's Physical Characteristics Size Matters Weighing It Up The Lunar Landscape The Highlands The Maria Other Lunar Features Rilles Domes Wrinkle ridges Grabens Regolith: The Moon's 'Soil' What Lies Beneath What Is the Moon Made of? (Clue: Not Cheese!) Moonquakes An Alien Environment Temperature Gravitational Field Magnetic Field Atmosphere How Long Is a Day on the Moon? Are There Seasons on the Moon? How Was the Moon Formed? Moon Capture Co-formation Seeded from our Earth Collision Theory The Dark Side of the Mon Liberation: Seeing What Lies Beyond Moon Past: The Moon in Our Culture A Brief History of Moongazing Five People En-hedu-ana: Astronomer Priestess of the Moon Goddess Thales Predicts a Solar Eclipse Ibn Yunus: Ahead of his Time Galileo Galilei Builds a Telescope Galileo and the Church Wáng Zhēnyí Listens to the Moon Five Places Warren Field The Knowth Complex The Callanish Stones Lunar Standstill Ziggurat of Ur Temple of the Moon Five Artefacts Aurignacian Lunar Calendar Ishango Bone Ugarit Clay Tablet Antikythera Mechanism The First Moon Drawing Five Poems 'Midnight Poem' by Sappho of Lesbos 'Drinking Alone in the Moonlight' by Li Po 'A Hymn to the Moon' by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 'Child Moon' by Carl Sandburg 'The Woman in the Moon' by Carol Ann Duffy Five Folktales and Science Fiction Stories Wan Hu Bahloo the Moon A True Story by Lucian Samosata Somnium by Johannes Kepler The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells Does the Moon Make Us Mad? Five Works of Art The Crucifixion and Other Paintings by Jan van Eyck Sketches of the Moon by Leonardo da Vinci An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby Moonscape by Roy Lichtenstein Over the Moon: An Optical Illusion by Rob Gonsalves Moon Present: A Sharper Focus The Raw Power of the Moon Moon on the Move Supersize Moon, Supersize Tides The Stuff of Life Emerging from the Tides The Wandering Moon Why Is the Moon Speeding Up? Not Enough Hours in the Day? Small Moon, Long Nights Resetting the Clock A World at Right Angles Observing the Moon Ideal Viewing Conditions Dark Adaptation Comfortable Viewing The Moon with the Naked Eye Phases of the Moon Why Do We See the Moon During Daylight? The High Seas Contemplating Craters Earthshine: Ghost Moon Total Solar Eclipses: A Cosmic Coincidence Partial solar eclipse Annular solar eclipse Hybrid solar eclipse Lunar Eclipses: Strange and Eerie Why Aren't There More Eclipses? Supermoons Low in Sky, Big Moon Lunar Highlights with Binoculars Additional Sights to See with Binoculars Lunar Highlights with an Amateur Telescope Magnification Photography Mountain Ranges The Apollo Landing Sites Reaching for the Moon: the Moon Landings and the Space Race A Brief History of the Missions to the Moon: the Luna and Apollo Programmes Current Missions to the Moon: the Last Ten Years Moon Future: What Lies Ahead? When Will We Return to the Moon? The Future of Science on the Moon Minimal Atmosphere De-twinkling the Stars Radio Silence Low Gravity: Bigger Telescopes Light-Free Craters A Time Capsule in the Sky Maggie's Three Eras of Space and How Commercialisation Will Get Us Out There The Future of Commerce on the Moon Resources Water Helium-3 Lunar Power An Ethical Dilemma Space Tourism Proposed Moon Bases Pros and Cons of Establishing a Base on Moon vs Mars vs Mystery Third Option Living on the Moon Who Owns the Moon? Moon, Mars and Beyond? Conclusion: Looking Outwards Acknowledgements Index