There is no time of day you can pick where the moon is viewable from the same place on earth thru the entire lunar cycle. If you look up the actual artist & not the repost, the photographer took a photo every 24 hrs 41 minutes to account for this.
Over the course of a month, that means some photos were taken in the morning, some at noon, some in the afternoon, and some in the dead of night.
If you took out a day planner and marked all the times when the photos were taken they would be evenly distributed throughout the whole 24 hour period, not clustered around any particular time.
I don’t think it’s nitpicking to say that isn’t “at the same time each day.”
And also. How else would you get this picture? Like you COULD fake it but to make it look this good would still be really hard. Going out in your backyard at the same time every night to snap a pic seems.... reasonable.
I mean sure. Loads of people have taken pictures of the moon.
But at the same time every day for 28 days? And it looked like this? No he did not. Does nobody here know how the moon works? It rises about an hour later each day. Half the month it would not be in the sky "at the same time".
What it would actually look like is a straight line across the sky, with only (about) 14/28 visible.
I think the problem is the “same time, same location” description.
If you did that, the moon would not be in those positions.
A waxing crescent moon on the horizon would be in the western sky just after sunset. A waning crescent moon at sunset would be below the western horizon. To get a waning crescent moon just above the horizon, it would be in the eastern sky just before sunrise.
You can take 28 pictures of the moon, one each day and composite them very easily, you just can’t do it at the same time each day. Nor could you do it looking in the same direction without a 180 degree fisheye lens.
These people are so annoying.. Like, I don't let a lot get to me and typically shove off morons pretty well, but these people.. Good Lord.. They irritate the hell outta me.. "Hurrr durrrrr I can't do things so this must be a lie durrrr hurrrr"
You should have seen the look on my grandma's face (she was an art teacher) when I couldn't even draw a straight line with a ruler as a kid.
Lots of practice, like a lot lot lot of practice made me somewhat decent at drawing now, back when I started, I didn't think there was any hope for me.
So what of a tangent but I feel the same about historical studies sometimes. I understand the importance of skepticism, especially when it comes to trying to pull veracity from potentially mythologized accounts, but damn does it get annoying when not a single feat worthy of being recorded is ever believed, especially when the reasoning often comes down to a general disbelief in anyone being capable of athleticism.
The funniest part is the bar here is going outside for 28 consecutive days and they think that’s challenging and anyone who says they have is obviously lying.
Especially when the person he accuses of lying didn’t claim it to be their photos and explicitly mentioned the author. “You know, Van Gogh painted the Starry Night picture” - “Sure you did”.
r/thatHappened is filled with the most jaded, pessimistic, utterly unpleasant people I have ever seen. They must live very miserable lives to instantly assume that nothing funny, good, pretty, or interesting happens in this world.
God damn thats the thing that's pissing me off the most about Reddit lately. Many specific subs seems to get the most ridiculous people
First time looking at this sub for me. Just saw another post where somebody was really stretching for a way that something could have happened, that made no sense at all
For the moon to be full it has to be opposite the sun, and for it to be new it has to be on the same side as the sun (up during the day). A photo of the same spot at the same time every day would have like 3 moons and miss the other 25.
You can check this by looking up moonrise times - they get later every day until it circles back around to where it started the previous cycle
This is correct. The entire issue here is "same time each day", which is just a comment by an idiot who captioned the image. If the photgrapher adjusted the timing about 28/24 hours every day, this might be possible, but some of those shots would be daytime and the sky would was out.
It also goes from full moon to crescent on the left side, and crescent immediately to full moon on the right side. That seems more like a design choice. Everything in between them is believable though.
Like there are some things that it’s like yeah, this is almost certainly bullshit, but I feel like the people on that sub are just taking incredulity to an absurd level.
“In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month.”
A synodic month is time from full moon to full moon. That’s why it appears twice
The is only one full moon, and it is in the center of the pattern. It is a new moon on either end (the moon would never jump from full to a sliver of a crescent). The reason you can see the new moon at all is because it is being lit by light reflected from earth (likely with the camera exposure increased). As soon as you get a crescent moon, that part is so much brighter that cameras have a hard time picking up the rest of the mom.
It's not. It's a new moon on both ends, look at the brightness difference between the ends and the full moon in the middle. It's just taken at a time of day where there's still residual light and with a good camera.
Its the Website where you can see the picture in higher Qualitäy, it looks like (to me) that its not actually the whole moon on the both ends bit the shadow of the moon being lighter on both of the ends. But idk it looks like it to me.
Edit:
On secound thought could be that she highlighted it to Show where the moon stands on a new moon
It’s a crescent on both ends. They’ve just exposed for the shadow side of the moon, causing the crescent part to be overexposed. If you look closely you can see a thin crescent on both sides. There isn’t a new moon in this photo as it’s completely invisible.
The full moon is in the centre. On the end are new moons, but it seems the camera had along enough exposure that the moon still showed up on those night.
Probably something to do with them going "oh, the 'photographer' just so happened to catch these pictures when there were no clouds or obstructions? Pfft"
I can’t tell if you’re impressed by the photos, impressed that you found someone with your surname, or impressed that someone with your surname could do something like this.
(Granted nobody with my surname ever did anything like this, so I guess I can relate)
Reminds me of people who claim the pyramids couldn't have been built using the technology of the day and like. Of course they could. The pyramids are right there.
“In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month.”
A synodic month is time from full moon to full moon. That’s why it appears twice.
“In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month.”
I learned about this photo when I did photography as a GCSE, and it was as simple as "she set up a tripod and put the camera on a repeating timer" like... its not that unbelievable.
There's a similar photo that's older and I forget what its called, but somebody EXTREMELY extended the shutter time of their camera and put it on a timer for a whole night, so the resulting photo showed a blur of the moon across the sky while everything else was in focus
This is impossible because a new moon and a full moon would show up at entirely different areas of the sky at a certain time of day. Also, first quarter and third would always be on opposites side of the sky at any given time
I don't remember high school science well enough to make a judgment call here, but apparently that shouldn't be a barrier to me just sayin' shit is fake because I don't understand it. 😂
Hang on tho, aren't different moon phases visible during different times of the day? So wouldn't the "at the same time each day" part be inaccurate? Pleases correct me if I'm wrong.
there's been nights where I've taken hundreds of photos. adjusting the camera every 20 or so pics. out in the freezing cold. there's also been times where I've woken up insanely early to watch something.
The description of how the image was made IS incorrect. It could not possibly be a composite of photos taken at the same time of day, because moonrise and moonset times depend on the phase of the moon. The full moon always rises at about six PM and sets at about six AM, while the new moon always rises at about six AM and sets at six PM. Opposite phases are in the sky at opposite times of day, so there is no time of day when you could possibly photograph all the phases of the moon. This is basic geometry - the new moon occurs when the moon is approximately between the sun and the earth and the full moon occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth as the sun.
“Hey I took a picture of the moon over the course of 28 days and made a composite photo of it”
“Yeah suuuuuuure you did buddy”
It's not even "I took 28 pictures of the moon" is "Georgia Hofer Photography in 2017 took 28 picture of the moon"
Why reading comprehension when angry posting do trick?
Why do you hate Ghost Trick? It's a great game.
How could you hate ghosts? They're not even real. 🙄
Tell that to the ghost in your toilet.
Yeah suuuuuuuuure you did budy
the moon is not in the same place at the same time every night
Exhibited by the fact that it moves throughout the photo
If it was actually taken at the exact same time of day, at least half of the photos would not have the moon visible.
There is no time of day you can pick where the moon is viewable from the same place on earth thru the entire lunar cycle. If you look up the actual artist & not the repost, the photographer took a photo every 24 hrs 41 minutes to account for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nothingeverhappens/s/XT9BKOkqWZ
41 minutes is such a weird thing to nit pick
Over the course of a month, that means some photos were taken in the morning, some at noon, some in the afternoon, and some in the dead of night.
If you took out a day planner and marked all the times when the photos were taken they would be evenly distributed throughout the whole 24 hour period, not clustered around any particular time.
I don’t think it’s nitpicking to say that isn’t “at the same time each day.”
Times 28 days??? You're only off by 2hrs every 3 days...
Nitpick is the backbone of Ackshually
I hope that was sarcasm.
Over the course of the lunar cycle, that 41 minute deviation adds up to over 19 hours... You might want to reassess what is "nitpicking". 😂
Ok the description is a bit off. Doesn't mean the photo is fake.
Yes, I referenced the original art. I'm just promoting lunar cycle literacy.
This is a correct statement 👏 but I wonder why you stated it.
There's a phone app called photo pills that will tell you the exact position of the moon at any given time from any given geographical position
I have an app called The Moon that does the same thing
I literally had to document the moon every night for a month as homework in elementary school lol
We were required to make similar composite photos in my Intro to Photography course lol.
Sure you were, buddy.
And also. How else would you get this picture? Like you COULD fake it but to make it look this good would still be really hard. Going out in your backyard at the same time every night to snap a pic seems.... reasonable.
Hell you can set a camera up to take photos automatically at a given interval in multiple ways.
You joking or not?
I mean sure. Loads of people have taken pictures of the moon.
But at the same time every day for 28 days? And it looked like this? No he did not. Does nobody here know how the moon works? It rises about an hour later each day. Half the month it would not be in the sky "at the same time".
What it would actually look like is a straight line across the sky, with only (about) 14/28 visible.
I think the problem is the “same time, same location” description.
If you did that, the moon would not be in those positions.
A waxing crescent moon on the horizon would be in the western sky just after sunset. A waning crescent moon at sunset would be below the western horizon. To get a waning crescent moon just above the horizon, it would be in the eastern sky just before sunrise.
You can take 28 pictures of the moon, one each day and composite them very easily, you just can’t do it at the same time each day. Nor could you do it looking in the same direction without a 180 degree fisheye lens.
These people are so annoying.. Like, I don't let a lot get to me and typically shove off morons pretty well, but these people.. Good Lord.. They irritate the hell outta me.. "Hurrr durrrrr I can't do things so this must be a lie durrrr hurrrr"
that “if I can’t do it, it must be fake” crowd is beyond exhausting.
Especially because they are seemingly extraordinarily inept, so EVERYTHING seems impossible to them.
They probably think that no one can draw a straight line with a ruler.
"The texture of the paper would cause the pen to skip causing imperfections in the line. This is obviously photoshopped"
I am so bad at drawing I can not draw a straight line with a ruler
You should have seen the look on my grandma's face (she was an art teacher) when I couldn't even draw a straight line with a ruler as a kid.
Lots of practice, like a lot lot lot of practice made me somewhat decent at drawing now, back when I started, I didn't think there was any hope for me.
how do you not get a "lip" at the beginning when putting the pencil against the ruler though
So what of a tangent but I feel the same about historical studies sometimes. I understand the importance of skepticism, especially when it comes to trying to pull veracity from potentially mythologized accounts, but damn does it get annoying when not a single feat worthy of being recorded is ever believed, especially when the reasoning often comes down to a general disbelief in anyone being capable of athleticism.
It's like I always say, doctors must be fake because I didn't go to medical school
Looking at the current US administration, many people unfortunately think what you say.
The funniest part is the bar here is going outside for 28 consecutive days and they think that’s challenging and anyone who says they have is obviously lying.
The "It never happened to me therefore it's not real" crowd are even worse.
Yes. These are the same people who think ancient humans couldn’t stack rocks without aliens showing us how.
The people on that sub never leave their basement.
And it's not even difficult to do. It's just setting up a tripod and a timer. I hate those people too
I am curious how they handled the compositing, given you would expect a few cloudy days mixed in. But maybe it's a pretty dry area.
It's because the person who reposted the picture lied.
The photo was created over the course of a year because of the weather.
It also isn't possible to get a composite like this by taking photos at the same time of day.
Source
Especially when the person he accuses of lying didn’t claim it to be their photos and explicitly mentioned the author. “You know, Van Gogh painted the Starry Night picture” - “Sure you did”.
“Nobody has skills, nobody knows anything.” It’s really pathetic
It irritates me just as much as people who comment "fake" on something that's just meant to be a funny or entertaining video.
I think that guy might be flearf
no professional photographer would ever take pictures. that's just ridiculous.
That’s like saying Shoemakers make shoes, see how ridiculous that sounds?
My cousin’s name is shoemaker now, but her husband doesn’t make shoes. Checkmate atheists
Everyone knows shoemaker's only purpose is crashing into Jupiter.
Shoemakers drive formulas. At least they used to
I mean, there are a lot of amateur astronomy photographers as well, it's a hugely popular hobby.
But how did she stand in the same exact spot every time?? Impossible!! (/s)
You really think someone would do that? Just go outside and take pictures?
It’s strange the two ends are full moons instead of new moons. Maybe some creative photoshopping I guess.
The Moon is a liberal myth.
I happen to know it turns the frogs gay ..
I thought it was split in two by a dude on a winged horse? I've been reading too much fiction. Time to put down the religious texts, I guess l
Didn't that guy at the World's Martial Arts Tournament blow it up?
Big woke doesn't want you to know about the giant ape monster smh
sounds woke
Woke rays..
It also turns people into werewolves. They gayest fantasy creature
The moon is a lot like a clitoris; many men have claimed to be there but everyone knows it doesn't exist.
I took just one look at the moon and went so gay, I turned to my friend and started sucking his dick. now he won't talk to me. Thanks liberal moon.
I don’t believe in the moon. I think it’s just the back of the sun
Tell me something I don't know
There are at least five people in the world called Steve
No. It's real. Jimmy Carter built it.
It's a storage tank for chemtrail chemicals.
Yeah? Then explain how did ancient people created lunar calendar that precise to!!!
Someone put in time and effort to make something? Must be fake.
r/thatHappened is filled with the most jaded, pessimistic, utterly unpleasant people I have ever seen. They must live very miserable lives to instantly assume that nothing funny, good, pretty, or interesting happens in this world.
Yeah, those jaded cynic types are exhausting
It's the same as every other sub. Including this one.
The base crowd is there just to see shit that is so clearly untrue.
But the sub existing draws in the pessimists who don't believe in shit, and often times that is what shines through.
This sub, similarly, often believes shit happened that is completely ridiculous lol.
God damn thats the thing that's pissing me off the most about Reddit lately. Many specific subs seems to get the most ridiculous people
First time looking at this sub for me. Just saw another post where somebody was really stretching for a way that something could have happened, that made no sense at all
Same lol. I had to mute so many subs just cuz the people there were stupid and unbarable
“You went outside every day? Yeah right, no one does that”
I can’t do that so it means no one can
There's not even anything remotely unbelievable about this, what are people not understanding?
The younger generations didn't grow up with exposure to as many non-digital tools.
They really should adjust their lens to see a wide angle of subjects
For the moon to be full it has to be opposite the sun, and for it to be new it has to be on the same side as the sun (up during the day). A photo of the same spot at the same time every day would have like 3 moons and miss the other 25.
You can check this by looking up moonrise times - they get later every day until it circles back around to where it started the previous cycle
This is correct. The entire issue here is "same time each day", which is just a comment by an idiot who captioned the image. If the photgrapher adjusted the timing about 28/24 hours every day, this might be possible, but some of those shots would be daytime and the sky would was out.
It also goes from full moon to crescent on the left side, and crescent immediately to full moon on the right side. That seems more like a design choice. Everything in between them is believable though.
It goes from just past new on the left to almost new on the right.
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve
The compression on the repost obliterates the crescents on both ends
You're right. It was an idiot who captioned the image. Here's the photographer
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve
Here's the photographer's explanation. They did every 24 hours 41 minutes. Whoever captioned the original image was wrong
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve
I genuinely dont understand anyone on that sub
Like there are some things that it’s like yeah, this is almost certainly bullshit, but I feel like the people on that sub are just taking incredulity to an absurd level.
This isn’t even hard to do, it just takes time and consistency
Yeah, any decently skilled amateur photographer with the right equipment should be able to do this.
Maybe im missing something but why is it a full moon on both ends where it should appear as invisible?
I've seen this one before, IIRC it was a legit composite, but the time span was much longer than 28 days (somewhere around a full year, I think).
“In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month.”
A synodic month is time from full moon to full moon. That’s why it appears twice
Well I learned something new today, thanks!
The is only one full moon, and it is in the center of the pattern. It is a new moon on either end (the moon would never jump from full to a sliver of a crescent). The reason you can see the new moon at all is because it is being lit by light reflected from earth (likely with the camera exposure increased). As soon as you get a crescent moon, that part is so much brighter that cameras have a hard time picking up the rest of the mom.
It's not. It's a new moon on both ends, look at the brightness difference between the ends and the full moon in the middle. It's just taken at a time of day where there's still residual light and with a good camera.
I think they overexposed the new moon for artistic reasons for the ends.
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/moon?lightbox=dataItem-jfduvkct
Its the Website where you can see the picture in higher Qualitäy, it looks like (to me) that its not actually the whole moon on the both ends bit the shadow of the moon being lighter on both of the ends. But idk it looks like it to me.
Edit:
On secound thought could be that she highlighted it to Show where the moon stands on a new moon
Thank you. This makes it make sense
It’s a crescent on both ends. They’ve just exposed for the shadow side of the moon, causing the crescent part to be overexposed. If you look closely you can see a thin crescent on both sides. There isn’t a new moon in this photo as it’s completely invisible.
Yeah, that’s a visual error—both ends shouldn’t be lit up like that.
The full moon is in the centre. On the end are new moons, but it seems the camera had along enough exposure that the moon still showed up on those night.
The full moon is in the middle. Those must be two new moons at the far left and far right. They just look…kinda bright.
The amount of photos from r/spaceporn or r/astrophotography that are removed by mods in normie subs because “AI” is saddening.
That's gotta be a troll or bot... right?
Probably something to do with them going "oh, the 'photographer' just so happened to catch these pictures when there were no clouds or obstructions? Pfft"
It's so rare to see someone with my surname anywhere. I am impressed
I can’t tell if you’re impressed by the photos, impressed that you found someone with your surname, or impressed that someone with your surname could do something like this.
(Granted nobody with my surname ever did anything like this, so I guess I can relate)
The first 2
you could be the first to do something like this with your surname!
Pretty sure they’re all in southern Manitoba lol. I see that name fairly often
This is easily something that would’ve happened … tf they on?
Reminds me of people who claim the pyramids couldn't have been built using the technology of the day and like. Of course they could. The pyramids are right there.
The idea of leaving the house over the course of 28 consecutive days is too much for this Redditor's mind.
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It's whoever went around reposting the image that got the explanation wrong. The actual photographer details their methodology on their website.
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve
They took each photo at 24 hour and 41 minutes apart. It also took them about a year to get all the shots due to weather.
The confidence of ignorance on full display
A bit confused. Goes from waned moon to waned moon, but appears waxed. Anyone know why, especially on the right side?
“In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month.”
A synodic month is time from full moon to full moon. That’s why it appears twice.
That's not full moon to full moon though... That is new moon to new moon. Waxing into full and then waning to new
That's still a synodic month. You can start a month long period at any point.
Likely just to demonstrate that the moon would be in that position. It's art.
What's funny is that this is just a fact, whether or not it's fake this is what would happen if you did take a photo. it's just science.
From Hofer’s website:
“In this composite image I wanted to represent the position and the changing phases of the Moon above the peaks of the Cridola Group, in Italy, during a lunar month, called synodic month.”
"I don't understand this, so it must be a lie"
fucking morons ong
With AI this is gonna get worse. I saw an AI image of the holocaust today. Never thought that was a sentence I would ever type, but here we are.
Isn’t this a picture from a science guy?
No, its a picture from a photography girl!
www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve
Either way, isn’t it from an expert in their field?
Yes absolutely
I learned about this photo when I did photography as a GCSE, and it was as simple as "she set up a tripod and put the camera on a repeating timer" like... its not that unbelievable.
There's a similar photo that's older and I forget what its called, but somebody EXTREMELY extended the shutter time of their camera and put it on a timer for a whole night, so the resulting photo showed a blur of the moon across the sky while everything else was in focus
Every single time I take a picture of the moon it turns out as a white blob. It is so disappointing. ☹️
I'd believe in the photo guy only if the moon was real
What? You had the proper equipment and took a 28 days long project? I never heard of such a thing
"Bro photographed the moon for 28 days"
you heard it here folks, the entire photography profession does not exist. pack it up.
Link to original post please
what is so implausible about this? are they actually just missing half their chromasomes?
Hell, I did this experiment through watching and drawing in college.
Damn... There's so many of them... They're getting away
It looks like this person doesn’t know what effort is.
Why is not back in the same spot tho
A photographer... Took PHOTOS? Yeah, right, like I'm supposed to believe that.
This is impossible because a new moon and a full moon would show up at entirely different areas of the sky at a certain time of day. Also, first quarter and third would always be on opposites side of the sky at any given time
Sources the image
“Surrrrrrre”
Dumbass bots
Incredible
An education is very important
r/confidentlyincorrect would love this post.
If taking 28 photos is automatically out of the picture, what is the limit?
It has like 9 comments on it and don't know the votes. Rage bait amplifier is strong with this one.
.....this is what some people do for a living... Im pretty sure most middle school science teachers have done this
Does the moon then start from the last point or go back to the beginning?
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve?lightbox=dataItem-jn2pllib
From left to right it starts off just past new, goes to full kinda in the middle, then ends on almost new.
This is such a realistic thing to do, like it’s not that hard. How is this unreasonable???
He probably thinks the OP means with a phone camera. Just a bit confused
Bruh
mom said it’s my turn to post this
Is this a flat earther thing
I wonder how many people have this tattooed by now..
It’s a point of personal pride for me that I got banned from that sub
“Hey here’s photographic evidence of the photographs this professional photographer took” “Yeah fat fuckin chance buddy 🙄”
Flat earther maybe? I really can't even think of another explanation.
Regardless who took this photo, is the description accurate? I can’t wrap my head around it
I don't remember high school science well enough to make a judgment call here, but apparently that shouldn't be a barrier to me just sayin' shit is fake because I don't understand it. 😂
Wait, but if they're taken at the same time each day
Shouldn't the moon like. . Not even be in the night sky during a New Moon?
Yeah. Whoever made the caption got it wrong.
The photographer says the photos were taken progressively later each day.
https://www.giorgiahoferphotography.com/lunar-curve
Hahahaha
Any astronomy gurus explain why it makes the infinity sign? It’s cool.
Was the post deleted? I can't find it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
Aktually,
According to NASA it's 24 hours and 40 minutes which explains the weird shape and that the claim "I took" was really, "I stole".
If it were the same time each day it would be a single curve, not a double
The moon was made up by big space to sell more gravity
I'm surprised none of those nights happened to be cloudy.
If they had a ring camera or something sort of similar surveillance camera they could have pulled the images from the footage. That is my guess.
I used to follow that sub a long time ago and had to unfollow a couple years back... It's literally full of brain-dead people
Hang on tho, aren't different moon phases visible during different times of the day? So wouldn't the "at the same time each day" part be inaccurate? Pleases correct me if I'm wrong.
"Show me the proof"
shows the proof
"Surely that happened🙄"
Other people keep themselves entertained with projects and share them?
No fucking way
Brain damage?
taking 28 pictures of the moon is suddenly a hard thing to do?
"I did insert reasonably probable thing" rando's online "yeah sure you did"
Is this what AI is going to do to society? Like, no one can imagine anyone else putting in basic effort to do something nifty?
Probably a flat-moon person who doesn't believe in phases or smth
someone's never met an astrophotographer....
there's been nights where I've taken hundreds of photos. adjusting the camera every 20 or so pics. out in the freezing cold. there's also been times where I've woken up insanely early to watch something.
The description of how the image was made IS incorrect. It could not possibly be a composite of photos taken at the same time of day, because moonrise and moonset times depend on the phase of the moon. The full moon always rises at about six PM and sets at about six AM, while the new moon always rises at about six AM and sets at six PM. Opposite phases are in the sky at opposite times of day, so there is no time of day when you could possibly photograph all the phases of the moon. This is basic geometry - the new moon occurs when the moon is approximately between the sun and the earth and the full moon occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth as the sun.
I think most of the commenters here missed the point of the comment, which was confused about the alignment of the moon across the days