We’re about two and a half days past New Moon, so that, of course, means a brilliant crescent Moon setting just after sunset.
The skies were clear (that will change a LOT starting Friday, probably through most of next week) and, as always, a short (1/8 sec) exposure will show you the crescent.
A longer exposure (1.6 seconds) will show you the overexposed crescent and the rest of the Moon illuminated by Earthshine (sunlight reflected off of the Earth, to the Moon, and back to our eyes).
Then, after I had shifted position so that I wasn’t looking at the Moon setting over the neighbors’ roof but over Old Baldy (Mount San Antonio), I got this spectacular sequence:
If your sky is clear, go look again tomorrow after sunset!
