Weekend promises a stellar shot of the moon

Bust out your scopes for this one.

(Credit: Starry Night Software)

How well do you know the geography of the moon? This weekend brings a great chance for you to brush up on your lunar knowledge.

Starry Night Education points out that when the moon rises each night this weekend, we Earthlings can view a great angle of these jumbo lunar craters: Plato, Archimedes, Copernicus, Ptolemaeus, and Clavius.

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by Christopher MacManus via CNET