February 26, 2013

My last day of my moon oberservation and I couldn't even see the moon! Goodness, the skies were completely full of clouds, and it was rainy. As I was searching for the moon, I saw two bright spots in the night sky around 7:45 p.m. as you can see from my picture. If I would be able to see the moon, it would be around 98% visible in its waning gibbous phase. I wonder if either of these two bright spots was the moon shining through the clouds?

My last night of the moon observations ... no moon in the cloudy sky!

February 25, 2013

Today is the day the moon is full 100% visible ... except when it is cloudy outside! Here is the picture of the cloudy afternoon around 12:20 p.m. Tonight at 7:40 p.m. it was raining, dark, and no stars or moon were seen. Only cloudy, rainy skies were observed. So the night I was waiting for ... the full moon ... I will trust that the moon was full and visible 100% to folks without cloudy, rainy skies.

My drawing of the full moon that I did not see tonight!

February 24, 2013

Today was such a beautiful day! It was sunny and felt like an early spring day! I found the moon tonight in the cloudy sky, and the moon was hidden behind a layer of clouds. It was shining through as a bright glow, but you could not see the actual moon. It is almost a full moon and should be about 98% visible if it were not covered by the clouds. It is still in waxing gibbous phase, and tomorrow we will have a full moon! Here is what I captured around 11:15 p.m.

February 23, 2013

Once again I did not see the moon today around 12:30 p.m. or tonight around 7:50 p.m.  I captured a picture of the night sky on my deck and was able to see a few starts, but did not locate the moon. It would be bright and around 95% visible in its waxing gibbous phase. In a couple of days it will be a full moon. Here is a picture I drew as well as the picture I captured of tonight's night sky.  

February 22, 2013

When we left for school around 7:00 a.m. the ground was wet, and it was cool and cloudy outside. It ended up being a rainy day with no moon sightings during the day or night when I searched for the moon around 9:15 p.m. I was able to capture a picture but it was a black 4x6 frame, so I drew what the moon would look like according to calendar-365.com.  It would be around 85% visible in its waxing gibbous phase.

February 21, 2013

Today was overcast, cloudy and cooler than I had anticipated! The weather was supposed to be in the mid 50s I thought, but when I was outside, it felt cooler due to the light wind all around. I did not spot the moon during the day around 12:20 p.m. or around 3:40 p.m. nor did I see it after class around 7:50 p.m. I captured this picture around 3:40 p.m. to show the clouds all around. If I had seen the moon, it should be around 80% visible in its waxing gibbous phase.

February 20, 2013

Tonight around 6:35 p.m. I spotted the moon after class ... the sky was full of clouds and there was truly a hole in the clouds where I watched to moon come in and out of sight as clouds drifted by. The hole in the clouds did not appear to move as if they were the frame of the moon! As I was taking pictures, I was able to capture a couple with the moon in sight. It was brightly shining and looked about 75% visible in its waxing gibbous phase.

You can barely see the moon behind some drifting clouds!

My favorite picture of the bright moon through the hole in the clouds!

You can barely see the moon here

You can see how bright the moon is shining as it peeps through the hole in the clouds!