The Moon Project

The Moon's current phase:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/idltemp/current_moon.php

Lunar rise and set times: (for today or any particular day)
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php

Note that:

• the latitude & longitude of Melbourne is: Latitude: 37° 49' S, Longitude: 144° 58' E
• Melbourne is on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), which is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) + 10 hours.

Other web resources:

• Lunar calendar
• Moon rise & set times
• Phases of the Moon
• The full moon
• Apollo missions to the Moon
• SkyNotes (what's in the sky this month)
• Google Moon

Gravity and motion

• Your weight on other worlds
• Newton's laws of motion
• Newton's laws (animations)
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion

Other astro websites

• The Nine Planets
• NASA photojournal
• Welcome to the planets
• Build a solar system

Activities

• Craters

Scientists in Schools program with Hartwell Primary School.
Leaders: Dr Sarah Maddison (Swinburne University) and Mrs Alex Parrington (Hartwell PS)

Last Updated: April 2008