"Good Night, Moon"

The waxing crescent

23.2 day old moon

38.9 percent lit

It is the 30th anniversary of the "Blue Dot" picture of Earth. There is definitely something about this light sky thing. It's like the undiscovered country or something.

A detail (click here) from a 1990 NASA photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, upgraded with current image technology and released on its 30 anniversary this week, depicts Earth from billions of miles away as a "pale blue dot" captured in a ray of sunlight at center-right.