When we were looking into telescopes, I read that a pretty good pair of binoculars can let you really focus in on the moon. Gary had just bought a good replacement pair of binoculars. (We'd just tried to look at the comet and found that our binoculars were for some reason all gummy. I again blame structural collapse. It seems anything rubbery just disintegrates in our house.)
The new pair were entirely moon-worthy (200x zoom). I didn't really believe an earth-bound pair of binoculars cranked up to max zoom would reach to the moon, but indeed they do. I looked at the full beaver moon and saw the "seas," or the mare, but no crater rims.
I understand that if you look at a gibbous (three quarter) moon you can see crater rims on the edge of the shadow. The next gibbous one is tomorrow.
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