The Phases of the Moon in High-resolution

I have started to accumulate images of the Moon taken with a Canon 1100D DSLR camera and my Ritchey-Chrétien telescope in the hope that eventually I will have a complete set of 28 images..  Generally this combination enables me to obtain a high-resolution image without the need to make a mosaic. (I say generally because, when the Moon is nearly full, its image is a little too large to fit on the sensor in the camera, so I have to construct a two-frame mosaic.)  During the time I have been accumulating these pictures I have also been experimenting and getting familiar with the DSLR (I plan to explain these elsewhere) and this is illustrated in the rather varying exposure and processing techniques I have used.  Also in an attempt to obtain this set as quickly as possible, some of the pictures were taken through cloud or other unfavourable conditions.   I will replace poor pictures with better ones if I can get them.

Because the pictures are very large (almost 3000 pixels square), I think the best way to present them is simply as an image, not as part of an html page. This means that your browser will (in my experience anyway) reduce it to fit your screen but clicking on that image will display the full size. This means that I cannot display the photographic data with the picture, so clicking on a thumbnail below will take you to a page where this data is given along with a larger, but still reduced, image.  Sometimes there are duplicates within the day period which I have kept because they show small differences caused by fractions of the day or libration effects. The final pictures are also linked from the corresponding page in my Moon Phases collection, where a limited amount of information is given.

No significance should be attached to the slightly different sizes of the thumbnails below.  This is caused by my inattention to detail and not to the Moon's varying distance from the Earth.  Nor should any credence be given to any differences in colour.  The age of the Moon in days is calculated as explained elsewhere and correlates perfectly with the phase, the ranges for which (in degrees) are given below.

Day 1 Phases 168 to 156	Day 2 Phases 156 to 143	Day 3 Phases 143 to 131	Day 4 Phases 131 to 119	Day 5 Phases 119 to 107	Day 6 Phases 107 to 95	Day 7 Phases 95 to 82
Day 8 Phases 82 to 70	Day 9 Phases 70 to 58	Day 10 Phases 58 to 46	Day 11 Phases 46 to 34	Day 12 Phases 34 to 21	Day 13 Phases 21 to 9	Day 14 Phases 9 to 357
Day 15 Phases 357 to 345	Day 16 Phases 345 to 333	Day 17 Phases 333 to 320	Day 18 Phases 320 to 308	Day 19 Phases 308 to 296	Day 20 Phases 296 to 284	Day 21 Phases 284 to 272
Day 22 Phases 272 to 259	Day 23 Phases 259 to 247	Day 24 Phases 247 to 235	Day 25 Phases 235 to 223	Day 26 Phases 223 to 211	Day 27 Phases 211 to 198	Day 28 Phases 198 to 186

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