Full Moon, a deep-sky nut's worst nightmare. Deep-sky observers and astrophotographers get a chance to sleep at night and ordinary people can't sleep, but is the full Moon really so malicious as it is always made to be?
Full Moon is the best time to see the fascinating ray systems emanating from several lunar craters. Because the sun is striking the rays from the "top", they look very different from when they are illuminated from the side.
As most lunar observers will know, sunlight shining from the side and casting long shadows gives a false sense of perspective, as it makes everything look taller. Full Moon allows us to see craters and mountains, although not in the detail we are used to from a quarter-lit moon, as they "really" look.
