Waxing Gibbous
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Eyes to the Sky: Four planets, waxing moon, lion, crow (click here)
By Judy Isacoff, Special to The Eagle
May 17, 2013
...The waxing (increasing) first quarter (half) moon occurs just after midnight tonight beginning a week of robust gibbous (larger than half) disks that will light springtime evenings for bucolic pastimes. Today, see the half-moon climb into the east-southeastern sky all afternoon. When darkness falls it is high in the south, below one of the most splendid constellations in the heavens, Leo the Lion. In the coming days the moon guides us, successively, to Leo, Corvus the Crow, Spica and Saturn....
May 17, 2013
...The waxing (increasing) first quarter (half) moon occurs just after midnight tonight beginning a week of robust gibbous (larger than half) disks that will light springtime evenings for bucolic pastimes. Today, see the half-moon climb into the east-southeastern sky all afternoon. When darkness falls it is high in the south, below one of the most splendid constellations in the heavens, Leo the Lion. In the coming days the moon guides us, successively, to Leo, Corvus the Crow, Spica and Saturn....
Oh, one other thing. I am a white person in case there was any doubt. Yep. Through and through.
