Explanation Introduction: The Moon which orbits around the Earth is an astronomical body and is only Earth’s natural satellite. Moon is assumed to be formed about some 4.51 billion years ago, and which is also the 5 t h largest natural satellite in the Solar System. The explanation that the Moon was formed by the debris after the collision impact between Earth and the Mars sized body called Theia was accepted worldwide. Observing the Moon is a very engrossing and pleasing activity for the amateur astronomer, by using telescope. Moon presents a large apparent diameter in the sky and shows thoughtful and predictable changes in its appearance during a twenty seven days cycle which is called as lunation. Due to lunation, we see the same hemisphere, which is also known as near-side. Therefore, various lunar formations, which are craters and mountain ranges, will look different due to high changeability of shadow patterns that may occur on Moon’s surface. Due to the orbital motion, the Moon will go in front of bright star or a planet which is known as occultation. No matter what phase we see, the Moon offers some albedo features when gazed by amateur astronomers. The first quarter moon shown in fig.1 simulates the amount of detail that is visible to use without using any optical instrument. The darker side of Moon is expounded as maria, in latin by early astronomers. Whereas the brighter portion of moon is known as terrae. By the use of telescope at low magnifications we can observe both the maria (darker) and terrae (brighter) portion of Moon and one spot difference between them...

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