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Photographing the Moon

Monday, January 25th, 2010

I’ve been trying to take photos of the Moon, but I’ve only seen it once since it was new just over a week ago. It’s been so cloudy and rainy that I just haven’t been able to find it, which is so frustrating!

I’d love to be able to take a photo of it every day of it’s phase that it’s visible, but the weather so often conspires against me.

So here’s a photo that I took last month when it was at the same phase as it is today – just over 10 days lunation and 75% illuminated.

It’s not a brilliant shot, but for a point and shoot camera, I’m really pleased with it. I love the craters on the terminator. This is a waxing gibbous Moon, five days away from being full.

Moon and craters

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Moon watching

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

We’ve had some rainy, misty or foggy evenings lately, but we’ve also had a few clear nights. Tonight when I went outside around 8.00pm it hadn’t got dark yet and I could see a beautiful silvery Moon on a background of a lovely blue sky. At first glance I wondered if it was a Full Moon, but then I could see that it wasn’t quite round yet. It’s got two more days to go before it’s full.

I had a look at it through my binoculars and I could see lots of detail – seas, and craters. The craters weren’t as prominent and defined as they have been as now the sun is shining more directly on to the surface there are no shadows to show the high crater walls.

The other clear nights recently were 5 days ago and 3 days ago. On both these evenings, the sun was shining on the Moon at such an angle to show up the craters beautifully, and on the terminator, high crater walls could be seen jutting out into the darkness.

Another two days to go and the whole process will start all over again.

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