After three years of not starting the Astronomical League’s Lunar 100 observation program I have found another opportunity to jump start this project. Recently I became a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ( Société royale d’astronomie du Canada ) and they have two lunar observing programs.

1. Explore the Moon – a beginner’s lunar observing program
2. Isabele Williamson Lunar Observing Program

The Explore the Moon program consists of two possible exercises, a binocular version that consists of 40 observing targets and a telescopic exercise that consists of approximately 100 observing targets.

The Isabele Williamson program has well over 1000 observations and will be an amazing challenge. So, my plan now is to complete the 40 observations in the Explore the Moon binocular program, then move onto the telescopic program and along the way fill in any overlapping observations with the Astronomical League’s Lunar 100.

After I complete all three of these lunar observation programs I will then evaluate if I will attempt the thousand plus observations in the Isabele Williamson program.

Hopefully, this will get me started…