Four moons on four successive nights!
Despite being quite light
nights, the spot exposure on the camera blacked everything out other
than the Moon, and the angle of the light gave some great crater
shadows!
Pick a feature of the Moon and see how much it rotates over the four nights!
(12th / 13th / 14th / 15th May)
Time 21:45 / 20:50 / 20:25 / 20:15.
Distance 229,535 / 229,295 / 229,494 / 230,205 miles.
Waxing gibbous / waxing gibbous / waxing gibbous / waxing gibbous phase.
215 / 175 / 155 / 140 degrees SW / S / SE / SE compass point (azimuth).
Altitude 46.3 / 46.1 / 38.1 / 28.0 degrees.
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