Naming of moons to as "Proserpina". More recently, especially in science-fictional contexts, the Moon has been called by the Latin name "Luna", presumably on the analogy of the Latin names of the planets, or by association with the adjectival form "lunar". In technical terminology, the word-stems "seleno-" (from Greek "selēnē" "moon") and "cynthi-" (from "Cynthia", an epithet of the goddess Artemis) are sometimes used to refer to the Moon, as in "selenography, selenology," and "pericynthion." The moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) were named by Asaph Hall in 1878, soon after he discovered them. They are named after the sons of the god
Moons of Mars pre-1925 astronomical convention that began the day at noon, give the time of discovery as 11 August 14:40 and 17 August 16:06 Washington mean time respectively). At the time, he was deliberately searching for Martian moons. Hall had previously seen what appeared to be a Martian moon on 10 August, but due to bad weather, he could not definitively identify them until later. Hall recorded his discovery of Phobos in his notebook as follows: The telescope used for the discovery was the 26-inch (66 cm) refractor (telescope with a lens) then located at Foggy Bottom. In 1893 the lens was