Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight's election provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly, and off we go. Tonight, let's continue with one of my favorite science readings on this podcast. Astronomy for youngks by Isabel Martin Lewis A.m.

Connected with the Nautical Almanac Office of the U.S. Naval Observatory, first published in 1922 by Duffielden Company, New York.

Let's pick up right where we left off at the beginning of Chapter 26.

Let's begin.

Chapter 26 Keeping Track of the Moon

Of all Celestial Objects, the nearest and most familiar is our satellite, the Moon. Yet the mistakes and

yet the mistakes and blunders that otherwise intelligent persons

frequently make when they refer to the various aspects of the moon are quite unbelievable.

Who has not read in classics or in popular fiction of crescent moons riding high in midnight skies, of full moons

rising above western cliffs or setting beyond eastern lakes.

Who has not seen the moon drawn in impossible positions,

with horns pointing toward the horizon

or a twinkling star shining through an apparently transparent moon.

Careful observation of the moon in all its various phases and at different seasons is the best method to be used

in acquiring a knowledge of the elementary facts regarding the motion of the moon through the heavens from day to day.

But that requires that one be up often after midnight and in the early hours preceding dawn.

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