Sunrise Over The Sea Of Tranquility.

Setting low over the church, I am afforded an excellent view of the first Quarter Moon through my modest old pair of 10X50 binoculars. Balancing them on the window ledge with a bit of patience and luck, this allows the camera to make a reasonably detailed reconnaissance of her ancient surface:

Aristoteles, Eudoxus and Alexander are the three prominent craters along the northern edge of the terminator toward the pole, set in the Sea of Cold.

Mare Tranquilitatis is the large irregularly round 'sea' in the middle of the image; Plinius bounds it on the edge of the Sea of Serenity to the north, whilst along the border of the Sea of Nectar are Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catherina, great craters almost touching one another with the Altai Scarp faintly running underneath.

As the boundary of night crosses the Southern Highlands, the most prominent crater is Maurolycus.

Thirty-odd years ago I would use these binculars to make sketches of the lunar surface, now digital cameras can do the same in less than a second - but there is a craft and a satisfaction to making such observational sketches that electronic tools could never replicate.