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Boundary Moon (APOD 'n Me)
... In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of night...the featured image is a digital composite of many near-terminator lunar strips over a full Moon. Terminator regions show the longest and most prominent shadows...The overlay images were taken over two weeks in early April. Many of the Moon's craters stand out because of the shadows they all cast to the right. The image shows in graphic detail that the darker regions known as maria are not just darker than the rest of the Moon -- they are also flatter.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250422.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250422.html
APOD called the image "Terminator Moon". No, no mention is made of the colours.
This name is astronomically more correct than "Boundary Moon" but the former is instantly evocative of the 1980s violent, dystopic (but fun!) motion picture which is so far removed from the sense of serenity this image conveys that I went with a literal rendering of the astronomical term "terminator" for that ever changing boundary between light and dark, between day and night on a celestial body.
Will end with my own, less accomplished, image of 2025’s April “Breaking Ice Moon” over our back yard taken with the SeeStar astrophotoscope which have had for about a year now.
This is also called the “Moon When Ducks Come Back“, “Moon of the Red Grass Growing“ and, more popularly now, “Pink Moon“.
All of these names evoke the Endings of Winter and the Beginnings of Spring in the popular Northern Hemisphere. Could, as usual, find no traditional names from the antipodes.
Peace
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Unfortunately, I have to agree with you about your moon photo. It's a little fuzzy.
Here's one of mine:
It was taken on March 7, 2025, and was just past the first quarter. Enjoy!