The French expression that "the more things change, the more they stay the same" is perhaps best applicable for the moon. The observation of the moon on a daily basis will readily identify its constantly changing behaviour as it evolves from a very thin crescent at the start of a new lunation to a noticeable crescent, first quarter and eventually a full moon as part of its waxing repertoire. This scenario will then continue but in reverse order, for the waning moon will now proceed in an orderly manner from full to a very thin crescent in a similar gradual but organized manner. Of course, this changing behaviour will repeat itself incessantly in precisely the same sequence and rate ad infinitum approximately every 29 days.
Body: Moon Mass: 0.0123 x Earth Mean Eq Diameter: 0.2719 x Earth Distance: 376,878 km Sidereal Rev: 27d 07h 43m 11s Age: 06d 20h 38m Phase: 96.7° Diameter: 31.95' Magnitude: -9.9 Light Time: 0h 0m 1.3s Rukl: N/A |
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Date: Oct 31, 2003 18:15:29 UT+2 Location: Athens, Greece Equipment: Celestron 14" SCT Losmandy G-11 GEM TeleVue 55mm Plossl TeleVue DEC-0028 Adapter Nikon Coolpix 995 Exposures: 1 x 1/70 sec @ f3.1 ISO Auto JPG RGB Fine image format 2048x1536 image size Autodark subtraction Software: Photoshop V6 Processing: Grayscale Cropping Unsharp Masking Resampling (30%) JPG Compression |