{"id":618,"date":"2012-07-17T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/?p=618"},"modified":"2013-03-03T23:09:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T23:09:40","slug":"lunar-phases-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Phases Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in February I was contacted by a guy living\u00a0in the Dominican Republic who wanted to commission a series of 26 photos of discrete\u00a0phases of the moon for use in an art installation\u00a0he wanted to put into his new apartment.<\/p>\n

I was delighted to be asked and although I explained to him that it could take many months to produce due\u00a0to weather conditions he was fine with this saying he wouldn’t need the completed series until October.<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0I\u00a0used several moon phase calculators (rodurago.net<\/a>, timeanddate.com<\/a>) as well as Google Sky Maps <\/a>and \u00a0Star Walk<\/a>\u00a0to determine when and where the moon would be and\u00a0set about trying to get as many images as possible.<\/p>\n

We then hit the wettest spring\/summer on record in the UK which meant that for many weeks in a row the moon would simply not be visible because of cloud cover. Despite this I would be regularly waking up at ungodly hours to try and get some photos, often without success. However I learnt the following things about the moon, some of which may be obvious, but some you don’t even really think about day to day.<\/p>\n