Images of the Moon Arranged by Phase.
See the animation of the lunar phases.
Ode to the Moon
Telescopic views are italicized
New Moon
- New Moon at annular eclipse of the Sun, May 10, 1994 (view from right to left). Mark Killion.
Waxing Crescent
- Setting thin late summer waxing crescent Moon.
- Setting thin waxing crescent Moon with faint earthlight.
- Thin waxing crescent Moon in color through telescope.
- Waxing crescent Moon with Venus in deep blue twilight.
- Waxing crescent Moon with Venus and Mercury.
- Waxing crescent Moon with earthlight in dark blue sky.
- Waxing crescent Moon with earthlight and tree branches in foreground.
- Waxing crescent Moon in clouds with blue sky.
- Waxing crescent Moon with Mars and airplane.
- Waxing crescent Moon in color through telescope.
- Waxing crescent Moon in twilight between trees.
- Setting orange waxing crescent Moon with clouds and earthlight.
- Waxing crescent Moon with Venus.
- Rising waxing crescent Moon in daylight through trees.
- Conjunction of waxing crescent Moon and Venus, May 19, 2007.
- Waxing crescent Moon and Venus, May 19, 2007, close-up with Earthlight.
- Waxing crescent Moon and Venus, May 19, 2007, dark sky with Gemini.
- Waxing crescent Moon with Earthlight preparing to occult Eta Geminorum.
- Waxing crescent Moon with earthlight barely grazing Nu Virginis. See the full panel.
First Quarter
- First quarter Moon over airplane wing.
- First quarter Moon in daylight with spring flowers.
- First quarter Moon in daytime with flowers.
- Rising first quarter Moon with contrasting white cloud, showing Moon's low reflectivity and relative darkness.
- Antarctic first quarter Moon with reversed southern hemisphere direction. Caroline Badger.
- First quarter Moon in color through telescope. See full resolution.
Waxing Gibbous
- Rising waxing gibbous Moon over Chicago.
- Waxing gibbous Moon through telescope showing craters and maria. Mark Killion.
- Waxing gibbous Moon in blue sky with scattered clouds.
- Rising waxing gibbous Moon with tree.
- Waxing gibbous Moon over cornfield in daylight.
- Setting fat waxing gibbous Moon with earthshadow.
Full Moon
- Near Full Moon rising above Earth shadow and the Atlantic Ocean
- Another view of the near Full Moon rising above Earth shadow and the Atlantic Ocean
- Full Moon in a dark sky with labelled maria.
- Full Moon rising at twilight.
- Winter Full Moon rising behind trees.
- Full Harvest Moon at twilight Moonset with earthshadow.
- Full Moon setting in earthshadow.
- Setting panoramic full Moon at dawn in earthshadow.
- Totally eclipsed full Moon, November 29, 1993, with background stars. Mark Killion.
- Total eclipse of full Moon of January 20, 2000.
- Totally eclipsed full Moon, November 11, 2003.
- Totally eclipsed full Moon, October 27, 2004.
- Totally eclipsed full Moon, August 28, 2007.
- Full Moonlight on the waters.
Waning Gibbous
- Daylight Arctic waning gibbous Moon.
- Waning gibbous Moon through telescope. See full resolution.
- Daylight waning gibbous Moon one day from third quarter.
Third Quarter
- Near-perfect third quarter Moon.
- Near-perfect third quarter Moon through trees in morning twilight.
- Daytime third quarter Moon above Parthenon.
Waning Crescent
- Waning crescent Moon with distant Venus.
- Waning crescent Moon with close Venus.
- Waning crescent Moon with Jupiter.
- Waning crescent Moon visits Antares.
- Bright earthlight on thin waning crescent Moon through telescope showing maria and craters. Mark Killion.
- Thin waning crescent Moon just 30 hours from new with faint earthlight.
- Very thin waning crescent Moon in dark blue sky.
- Very thin waning crescent Moon in distant sky.
- Very thin waning crescent Moon in orange clouds.
