24 hour moon - Revision history

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	In March-April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">{{cite web\|last=Schwarz\|first=Robert\|date=14 April 2016\|url=https://vimeo.com/162807842\|title=changing phase - the moon over the South Pole\|website=Vimeo}}</ref>		In March-April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">{{cite web\|last=Schwarz\|first=Robert\|date=14 April 2016\|url=https://vimeo.com/162807842\|title=changing phase - the moon over the South Pole\|website=Vimeo}}</ref>

	His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">{{cite web\|url=http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html\|title=South Pole 2016 field notes\|first=Robert\|last=Schwarz\|website=antarctic-adventures.de.}}</ref>		His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">{{cite web\|url=http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html\|title=South Pole 2016 field notes\|first=Robert\|last=Schwarz\|website=antarctic-adventures.de}}</ref>

	* '''2016-03-09''': project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.		* '''2016-03-09''': project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.

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	== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==		== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==
	In March-April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">[https://vimeo.com/162807842 ~~<q>~~changing phase - the moon over the South Pole~~</q>] by [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz],~~ Vimeo~~, uploaded 14 April 2016.~~</ref>		In March-April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">{{cite web\|last=Schwarz\|first=Robert\|date=14 April 2016\|url=https://vimeo.com/162807842\|title=changing phase - the moon over the South Pole\|website=Vimeo}}</ref>

	His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">[http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 field notes~~] by~~ Robert Schwarz, antarctic-adventures.de.</ref>		His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">{{cite web\|url=http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html\|title=South Pole 2016 field notes\|first=Robert\|last=Schwarz\|website=antarctic-adventures.de.}}</ref>

	* '''2016-03-09''': project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.		* '''2016-03-09''': project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.
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	* [[ShandTV]]		* [[ShandTV]]

	= References =		== References ==
	<references />		<references />

			===External links===
			* [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] on ''Vimeo''

	[[Category:Moon]]		[[Category:Moon]]
	[[Category:Globe evidence]]		[[Category:Globe evidence]]
	[[Category:Science data]]		[[Category:Science data]]

Flerf Whisperer: add other Antarctica continuous-moon videos

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	Primary sources: the [https://vimeo.com/162807842 Vimeo upload]<ref name="vimeo" /> and the [http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 blog]<ref name="blog" />.		Primary sources: the [https://vimeo.com/162807842 Vimeo upload]<ref name="vimeo" /> and the [http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 blog]<ref name="blog" />.

			== moon phases 2018 ==
			Robert Schwarz, publishing as [https://vimeo.com/polarlights polarlights], returned to the South Pole in winter 2018 after a failed 2017 attempt. His [https://vimeo.com/275131260 moon phases 2018] remake shows the Moon changing phase while it stays above the horizon for about two weeks.

			== Anthony Powell 24-hour moonlight (Scott Base) ==
			Anthony Powell documented continuous winter moonlight at Scott Base in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcLSzLbu-vE YouTube TFE package] and a [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antzkiwi_24hour-moonlight-in-antarctica-activity-7271680837794836480-FU8n LinkedIn post]. The Moon makes an elevation wave there, because Scott Base is not at the geographic South Pole.

			== Moonrise & Meteors ==
			Aman Chokshi's [https://www.wiffa.aq/en/film/868 Moonrise & Meteors] is a 36-hour timelapse from Amundsen-Scott. The [https://www.wiffa.aq/sites/default/files/contenuti-sitoweb/filmcard/2022/2022-Open-Amundsen%20Scott%20South%20Pole-2_RQ_720p.mp4 HD video] shows the Moon circling parallel to the horizon.

			== The Moon over the Pole ==
			Robert Schwarz's [https://vimeo.com/131331376 The Moon over the Pole] uses daily captures from a roughly June 2015 South Pole moon-up stretch. It is not a tracked continuous path like his 2016 and 2018 videos.

			== South Pole tracking mount - part 2 - rising moon & Iridium ==
			In [https://vimeo.com/176255004 South Pole tracking mount - part 2 - rising moon & Iridium], Robert Schwarz shows the Moon rising on a tracking mount around July 2016. It is a short tracking-mount demonstration, not a multi-day continuous showcase.

	== Why it matters ==		== Why it matters ==

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	A '''24 hour moon''' (also called a continuous polar moon) is the lunar cousin of the midnight sun: at high latitude, when the Moon's declination allows it, the Moon can stay above the horizon for about half a lunar month — roughly fourteen days — while its phase changes and it circles the sky. At the geographic South Pole that means one long, unbroken stretch of moon visibility rather than a daily rise and set.		A '''24 hour moon''' (also called a continuous polar moon) is the lunar cousin of the midnight sun: at high latitude, when the Moon's declination allows it, the Moon can stay above the horizon for about half a lunar month, roughly fourteen days, while its phase changes and it circles the sky. At the geographic South Pole that means one long, unbroken stretch of moon visibility rather than a daily rise and set.

	[[The Final Experiment]] later filmed the better-known 24-hour Antarctic sun. This page is about an earlier polar-sky record: a 2016 South Pole moon timelapse, not TFE footage.		[[The Final Experiment]] later filmed the better-known 24-hour Antarctic sun. This page is about an earlier polar-sky record: a 2016 South Pole moon timelapse, not TFE footage.

	== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==		== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==
	In ~~March–April~~ 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:~~Amundsen–Scott~~ South Pole Station\|~~Amundsen–Scott~~ South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">[https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] by [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz], Vimeo, uploaded 14 April 2016.</ref>		In March-April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">[https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] by [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz], Vimeo, uploaded 14 April 2016.</ref>

	His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">[http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 field notes] by Robert Schwarz, antarctic-adventures.de.</ref>		His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">[http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 field notes] by Robert Schwarz, antarctic-adventures.de.</ref>

	* '''2016-03-09''' — project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.		* '''2016-03-09''': project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.
	* '''2016-03-28''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.		* '''2016-03-28''': sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.
	* '''2016-04-14''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.		* '''2016-04-14''': full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description), upload day.
	* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, March 2016] (timeanddate.com)		* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, March 2016] (timeanddate.com)

	The filming window can be pinned from those sources rather than left as a vague late-March / early-April span. [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 timeanddate's South Pole moonrise calendar for March 2016] places a moonrise around ~~23–24~~ March. The 28 March blog note that the sun was already gone coincides with the video opening on a quite bright sky that then darkens — sunset into the prolonged polar-night stretch — which confirms which moonrise he filmed: the rise beginning '''2016-03-24''' and running through '''2016-04-06''', not an earlier continuous-up period. The later blog write-up and Vimeo upload on '''2016-04-14''' document the completed fourteen-day run after it finished.		The filming window can be pinned from those sources rather than left as a vague late-March / early-April span. [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 timeanddate's South Pole moonrise calendar for March 2016] places a moonrise around 23-24 March. The 28 March blog note that the sun was already gone coincides with the video opening on a quite bright sky that then darkens - sunset into the prolonged polar-night stretch - which confirms which moonrise he filmed: the rise beginning '''2016-03-24''' and running through '''2016-04-06''', not an earlier continuous-up period. The later blog write-up and Vimeo upload on '''2016-04-14''' document the completed fourteen-day run after it finished.

	Setup, from his own description of the completed run:<ref name="vimeo" /><ref name="blog" />		Setup, from his own description of the completed run:<ref name="vimeo" /><ref name="blog" />

Flerf Whisperer: Pin filming window Mar 24–Apr 6 2016 from moonrise + bright-to-dark sky

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	* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, March 2016] (timeanddate.com)		* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, March 2016] (timeanddate.com)

	~~Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload.~~ The ~~recording~~ window ~~is roughly~~ late March ~~into~~ early April 2016: ~~about~~ fourteen ~~consecutive days starting around sunset /~~ after ~~the sun had dropped~~.		The filming window can be pinned from those sources rather than left as a vague late-March / early-April span. [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 timeanddate's South Pole moonrise calendar for March 2016] places a moonrise around 23–24 March. The 28 March blog note that the sun was already gone coincides with the video opening on a quite bright sky that then darkens — sunset into the prolonged polar-night stretch — which confirms which moonrise he filmed: the rise beginning '''2016-03-24''' and running through '''2016-04-06''', not an earlier continuous-up period. The later blog write-up and Vimeo upload on '''2016-04-14''' document the completed fourteen-day run after it finished.

	Setup, from his own description of the completed run:<ref name="vimeo" /><ref name="blog" />		Setup, from his own description of the completed run:<ref name="vimeo" /><ref name="blog" />

Flerf Whisperer: Fix timeanddate moon calendar to March 2016 (recording month)

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	* '''2016-03-28''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.		* '''2016-03-28''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.
	* '''2016-04-14''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.		* '''2016-04-14''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.
	* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=5&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, ~~May~~ 2016] (timeanddate.com)		* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=3&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, March 2016] (timeanddate.com)

	Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.		Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.

Flerf Whisperer: Add timeanddate South Pole May 2016 moonrise/set under blog dates

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Add timeanddate South Pole May 2016 moonrise/set under blog dates

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	* '''2016-03-28''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.		* '''2016-03-28''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.
	* '''2016-04-14''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.		* '''2016-04-14''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.
			* [https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/antarctica/south-pole?month=5&year=2016 Moonrise and moonset calendar for South Pole, May 2016] (timeanddate.com)

	Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.		Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.

Flerf Whisperer: Trim Vimeo oEmbed/runtime; blog dates yyyy-mm-dd

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	== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==		== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==
	In March–April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016 ~~(oEmbed upload time 2016-04-14 05:25:22; HTML <code>uploadDate</code> 2016-04-14T09:25:22+00:00). Runtime is 161 seconds~~.<ref name="vimeo">[https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] by [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz], Vimeo, uploaded 14 April 2016.</ref>		In March–April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station\|Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016.<ref name="vimeo">[https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] by [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz], Vimeo, uploaded 14 April 2016.</ref>

	His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">[http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 field notes] by Robert Schwarz, antarctic-adventures.de.</ref>		His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">[http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 field notes] by Robert Schwarz, antarctic-adventures.de.</ref>

	* '''09-03-16''' — project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.		* '''2016-03-09''' — project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.
	* '''28-03-16''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.		* '''2016-03-28''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.
	* '''14-04-16''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.		* '''2016-04-14''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.

	Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.		Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.

Flerf Whisperer: Create 24 hour moon: Schwarz South Pole 2016 Vimeo timelapse

2026-10-02T06:52:04Z

Create 24 hour moon: Schwarz South Pole 2016 Vimeo timelapse

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A '''24 hour moon''' (also called a continuous polar moon) is the lunar cousin of the midnight sun: at high latitude, when the Moon's declination allows it, the Moon can stay above the horizon for about half a lunar month — roughly fourteen days — while its phase changes and it circles the sky. At the geographic South Pole that means one long, unbroken stretch of moon visibility rather than a daily rise and set.

[[The Final Experiment]] later filmed the better-known 24-hour Antarctic sun. This page is about an earlier polar-sky record: a 2016 South Pole moon timelapse, not TFE footage.

== Robert Schwarz, South Pole 2016 ==
In March–April 2016, photographer [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz] recorded a fourteen-day moon timelapse at [[Wikipedia:Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station|Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station]] (the geographic South Pole). He published the result on Vimeo as [https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] on 14 April 2016 (oEmbed upload time 2016-04-14 05:25:22; HTML <code>uploadDate</code> 2016-04-14T09:25:22+00:00). Runtime is 161 seconds.<ref name="vimeo">[https://vimeo.com/162807842 <q>changing phase - the moon over the South Pole</q>] by [https://vimeo.com/polarlights Robert Schwarz], Vimeo, uploaded 14 April 2016.</ref>

His field blog tracks the same run:<ref name="blog">[http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 field notes] by Robert Schwarz, antarctic-adventures.de.</ref>

* '''09-03-16''' — project starting around sunset: a two-week moon phase-change timelapse, with an Arduino stepper planned for the mount.
* '''28-03-16''' — sun gone; refraction still seen the night before.
* '''14-04-16''' — full write-up of the completed fourteen-day run (same substance as the Vimeo description) — upload day.

Exact calendar start and end days for every frame are not stated more precisely than those blog markers plus the 14 April upload. The recording window is roughly late March into early April 2016: about fourteen consecutive days starting around sunset / after the sun had dropped.

Setup, from his own description of the completed run:<ref name="vimeo" /><ref name="blog" />

* Arduino stepper on an old tracking mount
* Continuous operation around −60 °C; heated camera and lens; vacuum-oven dried gear
* 70 mm lens (~22.5° horizontal FOV); Moon's maximum elevation about 18.5°; highest moon cut off in frame
* Weather imperfect; mount stuck on cables twice and needed a daily rewind
* Phase changes while the Moon circles the horizon relative to the Sun; Moon is about fourteen days above (and below) the horizon at the Pole

Primary sources: the [https://vimeo.com/162807842 Vimeo upload]<ref name="vimeo" /> and the [http://www.antarctic-adventures.de/2016/spole16.html South Pole 2016 blog]<ref name="blog" />.

== Why it matters ==
Continuous polar moon visibility is expected on a globe at high latitude when the Moon's declination puts it in the sky for that long. It is the lunar version of the midnight sun, not a mystery. Some flat-earthers treat a "24-hour moon" as a globe-killer (see e.g. mentions on [[ShandTV]]); a South Pole timelapse of the Moon changing phase while it stays up for half a month is what the globe already predicts.

== See also ==
* [[The Final Experiment]]
* [[Antarctica video compilation]]
* [[ShandTV]]

= References =
<references />

[[Category:Moon]]
[[Category:Globe evidence]]
[[Category:Science data]]