Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar Events
NASA Technical Report R-277  -  July 1968

Lunar Events - 1500s


Date & Time

Feature or Location;
Duration

Description

Observer

Reference

1540 Nov 26, ~05h00m

Region of Calippus

Starlike appearance on dark side

Observers at Worms

Hess 1911

1587 Mar 5

Dark Side

"A sterre is sene in the bodie of the moon vpon the (blank) of Marche, whereat many men merueiled, and not without cause, for it stode directly betwene the pointes of her hornes, the mone being chaunged, not passing 5 or 6 daies before."

Anonymous

Harrison 1876; Lowes 1927

 

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