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Earthenglow. Amazing APOD Brings a Bit of Tranquility and Calm with the Old Moon Cradled in the New Moon's Arms
...26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on March 30. And while only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from [our] bright planet Earth illuminates the lunar nearside...
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250403.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250403.html
APOD—Astronomy Picture Of the Day—is something else from NASA (et al). We need to enjoy it whilst we can.
Earthshine—reflected sunlight—was (as far as can be historically documented) first described as the cause of the dimly lit portion of la bella luna by polymath genius Leonardo da Vinci around the turn of the Fifteenth Century
I've always liked the term 'Earthenglow' as it reminds me of Alpenglow—the wonderful rosy-orange glowing of sunlit mountain peaks against the dark as the sun rises or slips below the horizon.
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Ty for sharing! 
