The moon rises and sets at different times and locations throughout the month. Since, like the sun, the moon follows the ecliptic (within 5.2°), it spends half of the time north of the celestial equator, and half of the time south of it. Whereas the Sun takes a year to do this, the moon only takes a month. The goal of this lab is to observe this taking place. By watching the horizon at moonrise or moonset for a couple of weeks you can observe this change taking place. Start this project by making a good sketch of the Western horizon (or Eastern if you want to record the moonrise). Over a time span of about a month, make observations every 1-2 days, in which you record the moonset time and location on the horizon. Make careful plots; use graph paper. Once you are finished with your observations, you should be able to make two plots - one showing the moonset time vs. day, the other will record the moonset location vs. day. Use the day of new moon as day zero of your observations. If you don’t start exactly on the new moon, that is OK - just look up what day after a new moon you started. For the setting location, use the number of degrees south or north of due west.