Moon

When the moon is out I’m usually sleeping or without my camera on a morning walk, but I got these shots late in October.  The moon is just as fascinating as the sun.  More so in many ways.

We always see the same side when we see the moon in the sky.  The moon’s shine comes from the sun reflecting its light off it.  

The phases we see the moon go through occur when the moon is orbiting around the earth.  The earth is what blocks the sun’s light from reflecting off the moon.  So as the earth and moon rotate around the sun and each other we see different phases of the moon. 

From a photographers point of view the full moon is the best and maybe the easiest to photograph but every different phase has its own beauty.  The brightness of a full moon to the darkness of a new moon.  Each makes the nighttime sky different every night.  I would not have thought of that.

Pack out what you pack in.

Sources:

Explore the Solar System, Earth and Earth’s Moon, © 2011 World Book, Inc.  Chicago, Il 60601, www.worldbookonline.com

World Book’s Solar System and Space Exploration Library, Earth and Earth’s Moon, Second edition, ©2007, World Book, Inc. A Scott Fetzer Company, Chicago, IL