Phases of the Moon
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Yon rising Moon that looks for us again— How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden—and for one in vain! |
| — Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát #100 |
I made this animated gif 12 Jul 96 using 12-hour images downloaded from the
U n i t e d S t a t e s N a v a l O b s e r v a t o r y
A Clementine spacecraft mosaic of the lunar surface was mapped onto a sphere, and scenes
were rendered as a virtual Sun "orbited" the Moon. The depiction of lunar surface features
suffers geometric distortion but the terminator is correct with respect to the spherical Moon.