Waxing and waning

This is an experiment: taking pictures of the moon, as often as possible, hopefully on a daily basis, as we move along towards the first full moon of the year AND the first new moon. Much will depend on the weather condition. On the night of the second of January, for example, I couldn't take any picture of the moon because there was a very thick cover of clouds every time I ventured out of the house to look at the sky. My bad luck.

All the pictures here were taken with the Olympus E-PL7 camera with the 40-150mm zoom lens set at its longest focal length. As I don't have or use any professional equipment or sophisticated software 😝, I've to make do with Google's discontinued and hence unsupported Picasa software version 3.9.141 (build 259). The pictures were cropped and digitally sharpened with Picasa, but there was very little other manipulation, for example to the colour of the images.

From the 13th of January onwards, I switched to taking the pictures in the morning when the moon was then high up in the sky before dawn.

1 Jan 2020, 7.25pm, ISO 200, f6.3, 1/160s
(seventh day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

3 Jan 2020, 7.27pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/320s
(ninth day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

4 Jan 2020, 8.01pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/400s
(10th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

5 Jan 2020, 10.29pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/200s
(11th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

6 Jan 2020, 8.07pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/320s
(12th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

7 Jan 2020, 8.29pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/400s
(13th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

8 Jan 2020, 8.50pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/640s
(14th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

9 Jan 2020, 9.37pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/400s
(15th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

10 Jan 2020, 10.20pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/800s
Moon was 372,853km from earth
(16th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

11th Jan 2020, 10.55pm, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/640s
(17th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

13th Jan 2020, 6.49am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/500s
(19th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

14th Jan 2020, 7.36am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/200s
(20th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

15th Jan 2020, 7.39am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/200s
(21st day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

16th Jan 2020, 6.46am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/400s
(22nd day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

17th Jan 2020, 7.20am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/320s
(23rd day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

18th Jan 2020, 7.09am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/250s
(24th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

19th Jan 2020, 7.07am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/320s
(25th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

20th Jan 2020, 6.48am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/100s
(26th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

21st Jan 2020, 7.13am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/30s
(27th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

22nd Jan 2020, 6.07am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/25s
(28th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)

23rd Jan 2020, 6.30am, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/13s
(29th day of Chinese 12th lunar month)