Waning gibbous, February 20, 2022, 3:45 AM

 

Waxing gibbous, October 18, 2018

October 18, 2018, 7:28 PM

October 18, 2018, 7:39 PM. High contrast monochrome.

October 18, 2018, 10:12 PM

October 18, 2018, 10:14 PM

October 18, 2018, 10:16 PM

October 18, 2018 11:59 PM

October 18, 2018, 11:59 PM

First Quarter, October 17, 2018, 9:50 PM

Waxing crescent, October 14, 2018, 7:50 PM

Waxing crescent, October 13, 2018, 7:48 PM

Waning gibbous, September 30, 2018

Photographed about 6:10 AM, almost directly overhead. Two different exposures to bring out features in the maria and the craters along the terminator.

Waxing gibbous, September 18, 2018

Waxing gibbous, Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 10:52 PM.

Total Lunar Eclipse: September 27, 2015, 10:50 PM

Three minutes past totality, but the exact minute of Full Moon. Note the nearby stars, something you would never see in the glare of an uneclipsed Full Moon. Image is slightly blurred because the shutter stayed open long enough to form an image - you can see this in the slight trailing of the stars.

For full coverage of the eclipse, go here.

Waxing crescent, September 15, 2015 through September 20, 2015

Sequence of photos taken at roughly the same time each night between September 15 and September 20, 2015. The Moon was technically visible on September 14, as a super-thin 1% illuminated crescent, but was obscured by clouds.

September 15, 2015. 7:51 PM

September 16, 2015. 8:07 PM.

September 17, 2015. 8:09 PM.

September 18, 2015. 8:06 PM.

September 19, 2015. 8:20 PM.

September 20, 2015. 8:11 PM.

First quarter, August 22, 2015

First quarter, August 22, 2015, 9:16 PM. Unsharp masking applied.

Waxing crescent, May 22, 2015, 9:11 PM

Waxing crescent, May 22, 2015, 9:11 PM.

Waxing gibbous, April 28, 2015

I've had my new camera for over a year now and still don't know how to use most of the features on the darned thing. Today I was inspired to try something new - play with the exposure control. One of the problems with photographing the Moon is that it's so bright -  even at its crescent phases, the brightness washes out a lot of detail. I've been getting around that by using a high shutter speed feature, which takes a burst of images of very short exposure time at a much lower resolution than normal. I wondered if, by using the exposure control I could get high-resolution images that also had more detail than my usual images.

My first attempt was taken at 8:06 PM, shortly after sunset. The sky was still fairly bright. I cranked the exposure control all the way down to -2.0, and did some processing to the resulting image - brightness and contrast adjustments and unsharp masking. I was very happy with the result.

Waxing gibbous, April 28, 2015, 8:06 PM.

 I wanted to see what would happen when the sky was fully dark, so I took another photo at 9:26 PM. With this one I only applied unsharp masking; any attempts to adjust brightness or contrast resulted in undesirable results. The processed image has less contrast in the maria, but shows more detail along the terminator.

Waxing gibbous, April 28, 2015, 9:26 PM.

I'm glad that I tried this trick, and look forward to testing its effectiveness at other phases. Maybe I should go through the whole manual sometime...