This was unusual. There was an early morning crescent moon, and it was a waning moon http://lunaf.com/english/moon-phases/lunar-calendar-2013/12/30/. The official new moon is on January 1, 2014, and the moon will start waxing. The morning sky was so neat today. I am so thankful I took a few minutes to look at the early morning crescent moon.
The moon in Lubbock is very interesting. Who expects to see the moon in the morning sky? But we do. Who expects to see the sun in the east and the moon in the west in the early morning. But we do. Is it the wide open spaces? The latitude? The longitude?
I am not an astronomer even by avocation, so these questions are not some I could even begin to more than ponder. But I love the wide open sky of West Texas.
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