The Moon and Venus

Venus was a splendid sight in the dawn sky, rising in the east well before the Sun: its gibbous phase could be seen quite easily with binoculars. Higher in the sky the last quarter Moon displayed some beautiful crater fields and other features: virtually every crater on the Moon is named after somebody (usually a dead scientist, writer or philosopher) There were a few exceptions: the Apollo11 crew had craters named for them, as did astronomer Sir Patrick Moore.