Lunar Imaging from Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Multi-Phase Photographic Record and the Atmospheric Conditions at the Time of Observation (2025-2026)

This paper presents a photographic record of the Moon from Dhaka, Bangladesh, made in ten observing sessions between 7 September 2025 and 27 September 2026 with a Bresser NANO AR-70/700 refractor and two smartphone cameras (Samsung Galaxy A15 5G and Xiaomi Redmi 15 Pro). The sessions span the crescent, gibbous and full phases. For each one, the lunar phase, altitude, distance and apparent magnitude were taken from Stellarium Web, and the hourly weather from two hours before to two hours after the photograph (total, low, mid and high cloud, temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, precipitation and pressure) from the Open-Meteo historical archive. At the photo hour, cloud cover ranged from 2% to 100% (mean 49.5%), temperature from 24.2 to 31.5 °C, humidity from 62% to 93%, and the gap between temperature and dew point from 1.2 to 8.1 °C. Three sessions had nearly clear skies (6% cloud or less), three had partial cloud and four had heavy cloud (84% or more), but the heavy cloud was of different kinds: mostly high-level on 7 September 2025 and 24 July 2026, mostly mid-level on 22 July 2026, and present at all levels, with light rain, on 27 May 2026. Total cloud cover alone therefore hides important differences between sessions, and hourly weather records add useful context for interpreting amateur lunar images from a humid tropical city.