Starlog August 13th, 2017, 04:15 a.m. local time
Farmers and early risers will disagree, but I think of the Moon’s waning phases as backwards. I have been use all my life to seeing the waxing Moon in the evenings.
Attempting to view meteors on Sunday gave me a rare opportunity to photograph a healthy-looking backwards Moon at its midpoint sky travel that day. As I had already prepared my digital camera and tripod for meteor hunting, it was not much effort to first attach a longer lens for the Moon. Today’s picture is from Sunday morning with only minor touch-ups performed in PaintShop Pro.
Of course, this monthly cycle has special significant as this particular Moon phase gradually creeps Eastward every day to rendezvous with the Sun for the North America solar eclipse on Monday, August 21st.
