These are
pictures of the Moon during each day of its transition through the 29.5 day
Lunar Cycle. I was able to capture every day except Day 1 and Day 29. These are
difficult to photograph since they are very close to the horizon just before
sunrise and just after sunset. Also the moon is just a tiny crescent ~1%
Illuminated.
It took me about 1 year
to get every day photographed.
The
pictures were taken through a Meade ETX-125 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope. The
telescope has 127mm Aperture, an f/15 Focal Ratio and a 1900mm Focal Length. A
Canon EOS T3 was used to capture the images. It was mounted on the telescope
with and eyepiece adapter instead of a lens, so the telescope became the lens
for the camera. Most of the pictures were taken with an exposure time of 1/60
sec for the small crescents to 1/500 sec for the full moon.
Each image is composed of two separate pictures that were "stitched"
together using Microsoft ICE.
|
Day |
Date Taken |
Actual Age |
|
2 |
11/15/12 |
2.3 days |
|
3 |
09/18/12 |
3.2 days |
|
4 |
11/16/12 |
3.6 days |
|
5 |
10/09/13 |
5.0 days |
|
6 |
10/10/13 |
6.0 days |
|
7 |
10/11/13 |
7.1 days |
|
8 |
09/12/13 |
7.6 days |
|
9 |
09/23/12 |
8.8 days |
|
10 |
09/24/12 |
9.7 days |
|
11 |
09/25/12 |
10.8 days |
|
12 |
09/26/12 |
11.7 days |
|
13 |
08/29/12 |
13.2 days |
|
14 |
08/30/12 |
14.2 days |
|
15 |
08/20/13 |
14.8 days |
|
16 |
09/21/13 |
16.0 days |
|
17 |
10/02/12 |
16.9 days |
|
18 |
09/23/13 |
18.0 days |
|
19 |
09/24/13 |
19.0 days |
|
20 |
09/25/13 |
20.0 days |
|
21 |
09/26/13 |
21.0 days |
|
22 |
09/27/13 |
22.0 days |
|
23 |
09/28/13 |
23.0 days |
|
24 |
09/10/12 |
23.9 days |
|
25 |
09/30/13 |
25.0 days |
|
26 |
10/01/13 |
26.0 days |
|
27 |
09/02/13 |
26.7 days |
|
28 |
09/14/12 |
27.8 days |