Cherokee wrote:

Sooo.. fine SAA crowd, how exactly do I go about observing the moon?
This may seem like a funny question ...

No, it's an excellent question, not strange at all.

And the answer, like everything else, is to get some books and
some detailed charts. The Moon is such a vast subject that it
can't really be covered well in any general text. It's hard to
quantify this, but I estimate that at some level, there's as
much visible detail on the Moon as in the entire rest of the
sky combined.

In the center of the crater
are 2 triangular shaped points. Perhaps mountains?

Yes. All craters above a certain size have central mountains, formed
when the crater rebounds after the initial impact.

Nigh****ch comments that rays ...
are most visible during the full moon...
If I hadn't read the Nigh****ch comments I would not have
noticed the rays.

That's cause it's not full Moon yet! In another few nights, rays
will be the first things you notice when you look at the Moon.

- Tony Flanders