Looking for moon phase images with white background

[PhilipND]

Hi,

I am putting together my Christmas pressie calendar for the family (a yearly calendar) and was wanting to put some images of the 4 main moon phases in the appropriate dates.
Does anyone know where i can locate some reasonable quality images or sketches with white backgrounds?
Thanks

Philip

[mithrandir]

Thinking obliquely, Photoshop/GIMP out the dark background from some regular pictures?

Take a full moon and cut in halves for 1st and 3rd quarters?

[citivolus]

You could easily render something using povray and a lunar texture map, with alpha blending enabled.

Question, by white backgrounds, do you mean the area on the non-illuminated surface would be white too, or just the area surrounding the Moon?

[citivolus]

OK, easier answer, install Virtual Moon Atlas. You can set the save background colour to white, turn off the labels, and generate images for any date :) Then just import the images into Photoshop to resize.

Oh, and you can flip the image too for different hemispheres.

Be sure to install and activate the high-resolution Clementine photographic textures for more visually pleasing results (second image).

[Inmykombi]

Hi Philip,
feel free to play around with my images of the Moon phases if you want.

They have a dark background but you could change that I guess.

rgds.

Geoffro