This page shows the different faces of the moon during its 29,5 day cycle.
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Lunar Libration: I made this animation from the 5 moon images I captured during March 23 through 27, 2002. It is interesting to see that the moon is not moving in a smooth motion around the Earth, but also has a movement himself (herself?). This movement is called 'libration'. Click the small image to see the libration and to read (and SEE!) more about this libration. The libration explained. Here is is the famous animation by António Cidadão. |
Actual Moon Phase |
I am trying to set up a full 'day by day collection' through the whole moon cycle. If I will ever complete .... who knows? But it is a nice project! The date under the day sequence number is the date of capture. For more details about the imaging please click the image. The imaging details are at the bottom of the large image. I have used the MOONTOOL to determine the exact moon age of the cycle.
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(Only possible during a solar eclipse.) |
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NEW MOON |
April 11, 2005 CP995 |
June 4, 2003 SLR Photolens |
January 15, 2005 |
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. Seeing: quite some turbulence. For the mosaic I used 23 raw frames, image processing: slight histogram stretching only.')) |
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March 27, 2004 |
June 7, 2003 |
April 21, 2002 |
March 23, 2002 |
January 2, 2004 |
March 25, 2002 |
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March 26, 2002 |
March 27, 2002 |
FULL MOON January 24, 2005 |
March 18, 2003 |
December 10, 2003 |
October 23, 2002 |
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August 16, 2003 |
September 16, 2003 |
July 19, 2003 |
August 30, 2002 |
August 20, 2003 |
August 21, 2003 |
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August 22, 2003 |
September 22, 2003 |
July 3, 2005 |
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March 23 through 27, 2002. Waxing moon during 5 consecutive nights. The change in shadows and visible area is interesting to observe. |
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