This was the first image I had in mind when I started these silhouette images. The CMCs looking up at a galaxy lighten sky.As always there are a few bits I wish I had done a slightly different, but overall Im happy with the end results.Heres an alternate, more vivid version.For those that like extra color in their standard issue galaxy.---------- ... ... Do we evenmoon cycles? I never really payed much attention. Its complicated. When didget here? Don't worry about it. Now back to your question. Theoretically we have moon cycles because it was mentioned in EQG; apparently. Some say its as long as an Earth cycle, which is about 29 and a half days, so about a month. But when you consider how long a pony month is it might technically be 2 months? When the writers were asked about how long a moon cycle was they said the following, "it's a unit of time with no human equivalent." Which was just a lazy answer because obviously they had never considered much about how time works on the pony world. But because it has no equivalent measure in the world in which we were created then one might assume that time doesn't pass in an known way. Meaning time for us could technically be standing still at any given moment; thereby meaning that the moon, and the sun for that matter, may never move at all. Time could be irrelevant to ponies all together and the perspective of time passing is just draped across our universe. From our view we can't tell the difference but for one looking from the outside into our world it could be quite obvious; just as a two dimensional object can not properly procive three dimensional space. Not to mention that Princess Celestia and Luna are supposed to be in full control of the movement of the sun and moon at any given time. Which means that they should always be the same space apart and a cycle should never occur at all. In a scenario like that one could say that you 'cycle' would just be the moon's passage from rise to set, of course in such a scenario the shape would never change. So to accurately answer your question, Go away. I need more icons!---------------Also because someone asked, I wanna clarify I made the backdrop. Its not a picture from anywhere. As with all my images, I made it from scratch.