This is a four-day old moon, meaning it has been four days since it was a "New Moon" and very close to the sun where we can not see it. This moon is called a "waxing crescent" which means the crescent is getting "thicker" every day, on the way to being a "first quarter moon" which is half illuminated. It is a beautiful thing to see in the sky! If you click on it to see it in more detail, you can see smaller darker circular areas which are called "mare" because they looked like oceans or seas to the early people who first viewed the moon. They are smooth because lava filled up giant craters and when it hardened it was so much smoother than the rest of the moon's battered surface.
This is closer to my original photograph where the crescent moon looks smaller and more delicate. I could not decide after I took this photograph whether or not I liked the original image or the closer version. What do you all think?
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