At 400.000 kilometers, approximately, from Earth, the Moon is a big object in its own right. It is bigger than Pluto and Europa and about the same size as Io. For those around latitude zero, it looks even a little bigger due to the equatorial bulge.
As far as earthlings can see, it only shows one side. The other side, the so called “dark side” is never visible from here. As the Moon and Earth perform a synchronous orbit around each other, the opposite side of the Moon is never turned in our direction. So we get to see always the same moon face.
At it turns out, there´s no “Dark Side” of the moon really, and in the end it´s all...
MEADE 8” LX200, Canon EOS 5D ISO 100. Exposure time: 0.2 seconds in high resolution.
Image development in Digital Photo Professional and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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