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Lunar Position and Phase in Google Earth

Lunar Position in Google EarthA series of Google Earth Timeline animations, sorted by date, which plot a track of the Moon’s geographic position over one synodic period - New Moon to New Moon . The files include an animated screen overlay displaying the relevant lunar phase.

View just the current Lunar cycle: Current Lunar Month

Or a master networklink which links to a series of lunar cycles running from 2006 to 2011, that can be played back to back: Networklink

Both files update automatically.

Moon images are based on a rescaled version of this GIF animation. KML generated from Perl.

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  1. June 29th, 2008 at 20:24 | #1

    Can you get me a time line and the location and orbital plane of the moon at UTC Saturday Dec 21 at 11:50:00 1967to about Dec 1, 1980?? I need the locaion of the moon as it’s location on the planet surface like your other dates here please? Or can you show me how to make google earth show this earlier date please?

  1. August 2nd, 2007 at 20:47 | #1