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Daily Lunar Phases This Month
Daily lunar phases for the month
Diagram created with LunarPhase Pro



Lunar Libration This Month
Lunar libration for the month
Diagram created with LunarPhase Pro

Max and Min Geocentric Lunar librations for the month

The plot with big yellow dots and little orange dots between them shows the moon's topocentric libration for the month [topocentric means as seen from your location as specified in Configuration the screen]. The plot tends to oscillate between daily positions. This plot is for Dublin, Ireland.

The plot that's made up of light blue dots connected by darker blue lines shows the moon's Geocentric libration (i.e. as it would be seen from the centre of the Earth). This is a much smoother plot since it doesn't account for your changing position relative to the moon as each day progresses. LunarPhase Pro will generate diagrams and data for your location.


Times For Emerging Crescent Moons

Below are times for viewing Crescent Moons in UT for Dublin, Ireland. Crescent data is specific for your location but adding your timezone offset from GMT to the Sunset and Moonset times will give you an idea of when the Moon is visible locally. The amount of time you have to see a crescent and what percentage of the Moon is illuminated will be somewhat different for where you live. LunarPhase Pro will calculate all this information specifically for your location. The data in the screenshot below was generated by the software.


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Moon's scarred crust hints at recent activity, scientists say - Fox News


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Moon's scarred crust hints at recent activity, scientists say
Fox News
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Moon Colonies, the Fantasy and the Reality - Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)


Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Moon Colonies, the Fantasy and the Reality
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Transforming Weaknesses Into Strengths in Fall of Cybertron - Side Mission


Side Mission

Transforming Weaknesses Into Strengths in Fall of Cybertron
Side Mission
This coming directly from the mouth of Mat Tieger, Game Director at High Moon Studios, who stated this claim during a hands-off video presentation of the game that I was able to witness on behalf of Side Mission. How do Tieger and the team at High Moon ...

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What has happened to Nasa's missing Moon rocks? - BBC News


BBC News

What has happened to Nasa's missing Moon rocks?
BBC News
Towards the end of the Apollo 17 mission on 13 December 1972, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt - the last men to have set foot on the Moon - picked up a rock. Cernan announced: "We'd like to share a piece of this rock with so many of the countries ...
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Beside a Giant - NASA


NASA

Beside a Giant
NASA
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks small here, pictured to the right of the gas giant in this Cassini spacecraft view. Titan (3200 miles, or 5150 kilometers across) is in the upper right. Saturn's rings appear across the top of the image, ...

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Moon's surface reveals recent geological activity - The State Column


Moon's surface reveals recent geological activity
The State Column
According to Science 2.0, lobate scarps are thrust faults that indicate that the moon shrank in the past and that it may still be shrinking. Lobate scarps were first seen in photographs taken by the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.

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