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: 377,320 km Sidereal Rev: 27d 07h 43m 11s Age: 21d 00h 02m Phase: 75.9° Diameter: 32.00' Magnitude: -10.6 Light Time: 0h 0m 1.3s Rukl: N/A |
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Date: Jul 27, 2005 03:10:53 UT+3 Location: Athens, Greece Equipment: AP 160/f7.5 StarFire EDF TeleVue Zero-Length Adapter Losmandy G-11 GEM Canon EOS 300d Exposures: 1 x 1/60 sec ISO 100 JPG Fine Image Format 3072x2048 Image Size Manual Mode Software: Photoshop V6 Processing: Cropping Unsharp Masking Resampling (40%) JPG Compression |