When the waxing crescent moon is visible low in the western sky just after sunset, the sunlit side of the moon always faces downwards towards the horizon, though some paintings I have seen portray it backwards with the bright side of the moon up, away from the horizon. That never happens at sunset. Whether thoseContinue reading “Sunny Side Up”
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Twenty Years and a Day
On February 9, 2005, I took this photo shortly after sunset. It was a rare catch of the skinny crescent just a day past new moon. It was twenty years ago plus a day. Phases of Moon and Manby Howard EskildsenThe ancient moon drifts through the skyIts phases changing all the while Waxing and waningContinue reading “Twenty Years and a Day”
Another Skinny Moon
The thin crescent moon hovered low in the morning sky during our walk, with only two more days left to new moon. The past two months, this late phase has been hard to spot, but for the next couple of months it will be much more easily seen as it traces the path of theContinue reading “Another Skinny Moon”
Come What May
The grinning crescent moon settled towards the horizon as we rode on the People Mover in Tomorrowland of the Magic Kingdom. A lifetime of memories are captured in this image with many more yet to be made, come what May.
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