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06-07-08, 01:50 PM
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/junemoon_claro_800.jpg (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0806/junemoon_claro.jpg) June's Young Crescent Moon
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): Miguel Claro (http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte)
Explanation: Serene skyviews were enjoyed across planet Earthearlier this week with a youngcrescent Moon (http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonphase/)low in the western sky just after sunset.Recorded on June 4,thiscolorful example (http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/paisagens.htm)includes a quiet beachin the foreground with the city lights of Lisbon, Portugal,and the Sintra Mountains along the horizon.Posing between cloud banks, the Moon's slender, sunlit arcrepresents only about 1 percent of the full lunar disc.The rest of the Moon's nearside is faintly visible though,illuminated (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/codex/2A2r.html)by Earthshine (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020419.html).A waxing crescent (http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/moonlight.html) Moon shouldalso create some lovely western skies at duskthisweekend (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance).The bright star in the sky near tonight's (Saturday's) Moon willactually be the planet Mars (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html).On Sunday the Moon will move closer to a pair of celestialbeacons, bright star Regulusand Saturn (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html).
Source (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080607.html)
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): Miguel Claro (http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte)
Explanation: Serene skyviews were enjoyed across planet Earthearlier this week with a youngcrescent Moon (http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonphase/)low in the western sky just after sunset.Recorded on June 4,thiscolorful example (http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte/paisagens.htm)includes a quiet beachin the foreground with the city lights of Lisbon, Portugal,and the Sintra Mountains along the horizon.Posing between cloud banks, the Moon's slender, sunlit arcrepresents only about 1 percent of the full lunar disc.The rest of the Moon's nearside is faintly visible though,illuminated (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/codex/2A2r.html)by Earthshine (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020419.html).A waxing crescent (http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/moonlight.html) Moon shouldalso create some lovely western skies at duskthisweekend (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance).The bright star in the sky near tonight's (Saturday's) Moon willactually be the planet Mars (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html).On Sunday the Moon will move closer to a pair of celestialbeacons, bright star Regulusand Saturn (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html).
Source (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080607.html)