On the mornings of July 2nd and 3rd looking East before sunrise there is a great opportunity to photograph the crescent Moon, Jupiter, Mars, and the open clusters M45 , The Pleiades and the Hyades in Taurus.
The new moon happens when the moon is in between the Earth and the Sun on its orbital path. The new moon is described as invisible because the part of the moon that is illuminated by the Sun is not facing the Earth. Only the dark side of the moon is visible.
A full moon is opposite the sun in its orbit around Earth. Its sunlit side is entirely visible from Earth. The moon appears full to the eye for two to three nights. However, astronomers regard the moon as full at a precisely defined instant, when the moon is exactly 180 degrees opposite the sun in … Continue reading Full Moon→
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