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Community photo entitled  by Nina Gorenstein on 06/17/2021 at West Lafayette, IN, USA

On 06/17/2021 11:32 pm by Nina Gorenstein| West Lafayette, IN, USA

Growing moon in five consecutive days.
Although every earthly day (24 hours) the position of the terminator shifts along the SPHERICAL surface of the moon by the same distance, the position of the terminator on the lunar DISK (as we see the moon from the Earth) changes unevenly: the moon "grows more slowly" in the first days after the new moon and "grows faster" as approaching the first quarter. In the first days after the first quarter, this "rapid growth" continues, and the "daily gain" decreases in the days before the full moon. Geometry explains this phenomenon.

Nikon Coolpix P900

Cropped, combined