A couple of hours after sunset the waxing gibbous Moon rises in the east: the yellowish 'star' to the south of it is the second largest planet in the Solar System, Saturn.
As well as its famous ring system (a feature shared by all the gas giants) Saturn's moon Titan is the second largest, being just a little smaller than Jupiter's moon Ganymede but bigger than the planet Mercury!
The striking crater right on the Moon's terminator is Hevelius
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