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Credit & Copyright: Jordi Coy
Explanation:
Most of us watch
the Moon at night.
But the Moon spends nearly as many daylight hours above our horizon,
though in bright daytime skies the lunar disk looks pale and can
be a little harder to see.
Of course in daytime skies the Moon also appears to cycle
through its phases,
shining by reflected sunlight as it orbits our fair planet.
For daytime moonwatchers, the Moon is probably easier to spot
when the visible sunlit portion of the lunar disk is large and
waxing following first quarter or waning approaching its third quarter phase.
And though it might look unusual,
a daytime moon
is often seen even in urban skies.
Captured here in a
telephoto snapshot
taken on March 12, a waxing daytime Moon is aligned near the edge of a
popular observation deck that overlooks
New York City's borough of Manahattan.
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