This mosaic was made by combining 8 images. The images were taken between 19:45 UT and 20:15 UT, all with integration times of 0.1 s. One frame was forgotten.

These two images were taken at 20:46 UT with integration times of 4 s, in primary focus. It shows the dark side of the Moon. The side that is not in direct sunlight. If the images were taken with the same configuration as the mosaic above, they would have been completely dark. The dim light, seen on the dark side of the Moon, is reflected sunlight by the Earth. You can easily see the craters Tycho (bottom) and Copernicus (above center) with there ray systems.

The area in the white box shows where the images on the dark side were taken. The white circle shows the disk of the whole Moon.

The same Earth reflected sunlight can be seen on this photograph, taken on 6 Apr 2000, with a 4 seconds exposure trough a 300 mm telelens (non CCD image). On this day, the light from the dark side was much brighter than on 9 Apr 2000.

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This 30 frames movie shows the dark side of the Moon. But there are also 3 stars (a bright one and to fainter ones, adjust monitor brightness when necessary) in these frames. You can see the Moon moving towards the stars in a short time. This is caused by the rotation of the Moon around the Earth. The frames were taken between 20:43 and 20:56 UT with integration times of 1 s. The very bright area at the lower right corner of the movie is overexposed, because it is in direct sunlight.