When we go back to the moon in 2018, I'll be a spry 58 years old - so I should certainly live long enough to make the journey myself. <g> So, I was curious what it would take if I plop my Meade LX-200 out on the lunar surface and want to observe? Visually - I'm going to have a tough time because the helmet visor sure makes it tough to get to the eyepiece. Tracking & Pointing - I think I'm going to need some software on a laptop to get this thing to point to the right place - because I sure can't use a sidereal rate here. It would be easier with pointing a dob because things wouldn't be moving very quickly - but that eyepiece problem would need to be resolved. Exclusion zones - I've got this one big blue ball in the sky that is always basically in about the same location. Plus, there is still the very bright sun subtending about 30 arcminutes - emitting at every frequency. But it's only up 2 weeks each month. Guiding - I think my autoguider would still work just fine - but for those of us with Meade telescopes - we'll probably still have to use AO7's because of the high periodic error. How long will it work? - I'm curious how long it would take for all of the grease to out-gas leaving me with ground up (but not squeaky - because of no sound) gears? Plus, temperature extremes are going to punish it much worse than anything I see in Cache Valley. Clear skies, Dale.