The waning gibbous moon in the morning light, 59.4% illuminated. The nearly third-quarter moon rises at night and sets in late morning. The photo shows the moon at about 10 am local time.
Compare this picture with the previous one, taken at night, 8 hours earlier. In the daylight picture, you can see that the sun is shining on the moon from higher in the sky, above (and to the left of) the moon. In the nighttime photo, the sun is shining on the moon from under the horizon, below (and still to the left of) the moon.
5 December 2012 17:58 UTC
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