mastodon.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Administered by:

Server stats:

380K
active users

NASA's visualization team created a beautiful preview of every phase of the Moon in 2025, hour by hour.

The best part: Watching how the Moon's appearance changes due to its inclination, oval orbit, and libration (wobble).

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5415

Corey S Powell

For the purists, here's a video of all lunar phases in 2025 with no labeling. It takes about 5 minutes to watch the full thing -- and what a sweet, meditative 5 minutes it is.

(Full video at link.)

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5415

@coreyspowell I love how it moves closer and farther, rotating just a bit in the process.

@coreyspowell

Purism? None of that. You can rotate the unlabeled version for use in the southern hemisphere without getting irritated by the upside-down text.

US-based astronomers are a bunch of flatlanders, as always.

@coreyspowell Is the rocking, or wobble, part of the natural oscillation of the moon or is it caused by the changing perspective of the earth?