The waxing crescent moon is in the earth shine zone for a few days. Having just slid between the earth and sun and only showing us a sliver of it's light side the moon's dark side will be lit the next several days by light bouncing from the lighted earth to the dark moon and back: earth shine. While the crescent gets noticed, a closer look will show the outline of the dark side of the moon. But, only for this week, as the moon approaches the first quarter, the sunny side will wash out the earth shine.
Venus still rules the west, Jupiter slips lower and lower below it, Mars shines red high in the southeast and Saturn is just peeking above the eastern horizon at sunset. 4 planets, scattered about the ecliptic at dark, check 'em out.
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