{"id":18392,"date":"2015-10-02T00:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T23:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18392"},"modified":"2023-02-12T22:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T22:41:48","slug":"more-moon-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18392","title":{"rendered":"More Moon Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having seen the effect of the sun casting shadows across the face of the moon I took the opportunity to catch the latest phase tonight. The moon rises later each night, and it is quite low on the horizon \u2013 which led to this lucky shot.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/696;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"The tree got there first\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moon_2_10_15_tree.jpg\" alt=\"The tree got there first\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, after moving away from the Silver Birch tree, this is the detail visible tonight.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/696;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Moon as it appeared on 2 October 2015\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moon_2_10_15.jpg\" alt=\"Moon as it appeared on 2 October 2015\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was brought up to believe that although there were craters on the moon, much of it \u2013 and certainly the front &#8211; was like a big dusty desert. Apollo mission photos did a lot to create this impression.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/699;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Apollo 15 moon surface photo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moon_surface.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo 15 moon surface photo\" width=\"696\" height=\"699\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a child I used to have a telescope, but it wasn\u2019t very powerful \u2013 as I\u2019ve discovered the last week or so, much less powerful than the telephoto lens on my camera. With my telescope, you could just make out mountain ranges at the edge of the sun\u2019s coverage, but little else. How times change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The areas on the moon you think of as being quite featureless show up as being pocked by craters.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 694px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 694\/269;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"The top part of the moon\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moon_2_10_15_top.jpg\" alt=\"The top part of the moon\" width=\"694\" height=\"269\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the edges of the \u201cseas\u201d (or maria) are seen to cast shadows, suggestive of steep sides.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 694px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 694\/269;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"The bottom part of the moon\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/moon_2_10_15_bottom.jpg\" alt=\"The bottom part of the moon\" width=\"694\" height=\"269\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen the effect of the sun casting shadows across the face of the moon I took the opportunity to catch the latest phase tonight. The moon rises later each night, and it is quite low on the horizon \u2013 which led to this lucky shot. Anyway, after moving away from the Silver Birch tree, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,90,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-computer-tech-related","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}