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Lunar photographer takes pictures of the moon every night for a month – to show in world’s most vivid detail the extent the moon moves during each orbit

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Lunar photographer takes pictures of the moon every night for a month – to show in world’s most vivid detail the extent the moon moves during each orbit

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This amazing video clip shows in dramatic detail just how much the moon “wobbles” in the sky during each 27-day orbit.

Lunar photographer Andrew McCarthy spent hundreds of hours over 22 consecutive nights, taking thousands of photos of the moon as it waxed and then waned through nearly a full orbit.

Andrew, based in California, USA, wanted to show for the first time the exact movement of the moon in the sky over the course of a lunar month.

But even though this movement, known as ‘libration’, is a well-known phenomenon, Andrew said he was shocked to see up-close just how much the moon changes angle as it rotates.

His 40-second video clip, comprised of thousands of images painstakingly aligned on top of one another, appears to show the moon doing a little “wiggle” as it orbits, which Andrew described as a “cosmic dance”.

Pictures of the moon that were used to create a video showing how the moon “wobbles” in different moon phases.
Pictures of the moon that were used to create a video showing how the moon “wobbles” in different moon phases.

The shift also allows observers to view many of the moon’s craters from different angles and in different lights.

Posting the video on his Instagram, Andrew wrote: “Over the last month, I worked on my largest project so far – an attempt to really show off the unmistakable spherical nature of the moon.

“By capturing a high resolution image of the moon every night for 22 days, I captured the ‘libration’, which is the apparent wobble of our moon.

“Locked in an eternal cosmic dance, this little wiggle is caused by the angle of the Moon’s elliptical orbit and the position of the observer.

“The moon itself is not actually wobbling, it’s just orbiting.

“However, the side we see shifts a little because the orbit is angled and elliptical, so you can see a bit of other sides depending on where it is in the sky relative to the observer.

“I also zoomed into some of my favorite features, where the depth really comes to life.”

Andrew added that this was his most challenging project so far, saying: “I have wanted to do this ever sense I got into astrophotography.

“The challenge is having enough clear nights in a row to pull it off.

“Some nights when conditions were ideal I could get it done within 30 minutes, other nights I spent hours shooting waiting for conditions to improve.

“Libration is a known phenomenon, but I didn’t realize how dramatic the difference would be.

“Many features, such as the Clavius Crater, completely change angle as the moon rotates them away from the observer.

“This really adds a level of depth to these features I was not expecting.”

Each final image that made it into Andrew’s short video clip is actually a mosaic assembled from hundreds of photos – in order to get past any atmospheric “turbulence” that might distort an image.

Andrew said: “This project took hundreds of hours to complete, and involved millions of frames and terabytes of data.

“The work involved behind each frame was already large, so hand aligning each image and creating an animation that was smooth and showed the level of detail I wanted was a trial of patience.

“My favorite phases are generally on the waning side of the moon, which is also the hardest to capture.

“The stark contrast in the few complex prominent craters such as Aristarchus and Copernicus against the smooth Maria makes for a lovely composition.”

To see more of Andrew’s work, search for @cosmic_background on Instagram or go to https://www.patreon.com/ajamesmccarthy.

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