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Old May 6th 18, 11:04 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Mike Collins[_4_]
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Default Full moon at the South Pole

Gerald Kelleher wrote:

https://www.moongiant.com/phase/today/

https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spwebcam.cfm

What a difference the diminishing light of the moon makes as polar night
becomes well established for the next 4 months.

Here is something anyone can work on as the moon orbits the Earth so a
unique place to see the phases evolve continuously for periods of the moon's orbit.








You can’t see the phases continuously for two reasons. It’s often cloudy at
the South Pole and the moon rises and sets. It will set on the 12th of May
and rise on the 25th. During these times when you can’t see the Moon from
the South Pole you can see the evolving phases of the Moon every day from
your own garden.