Da Vinci Rise

An outdated Moon rose this morning, its waning sunlit crescent lustrous appropriate above the eastern horizon before dawn. But earthshine, light mirrored from a lustrous planet Earth, lit the shadowed piece of the lunar disk and printed most of a smartly-diagnosed lunar reach aspect to early morning risers. Essentially, a description of earthshine through sunlight hours mirrored by Earth’s oceans illuminating the Moon’s darkish ground was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. One lunation ago this outdated Moon furthermore rose above the eastern horizon. Its sunlit crescent and da Vinci glow had been captured in stacked exposures from the Badain Jilin Desolate tract of Interior Mongolia, China on August 29, 2019. This year marks the 500th anniversary of Leondardo da Vinci’s death.