Thin Crescent with McGraw Tower, Venus and Star

Here I revel in the spectacle of an early morning rising of the cresent moon.

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Here are two photographs taken about the same time, 6:30 am, October 18, 2018, a day after yesterday’s post.

The moon rises later each day, so these shots include a larger disk closer to Cornell University.  Both components, the crescent and earth-glow, were dimmer this morning.    In each photograph Jenny McGraw Tower is visible.

Crescent, McGraw Tower, Regulus, Venus
The star is Regulus, the brightest in the constellation Leo, close below the moon.  I don’t know the star close to Venus.

Here the tower is slightly to the right of the crescent, the arch of Schoellkopf stadium further right.  Among the trees on left, is the baleful red glow of Bradford Hall.

October 18, 2017 about 6:30 am the waning crescent moon rose above Cornell University. Photograph from West Hill across the valley. The star is Regulus, the brightest in the constellation Leo.

Click mE for another view of McGraw Tower from my Online gallery.

The tower is outlined by the lights of Uris library, presumably filled with early rising students.

The light of Regulus (“small king”), below and to the right, is a composite of four stars moving together through space.  The position of Regulus on the path in the sky of the moon, planets and asteroids (called the ecliptic) leads to the occultation of the star by the disks of the moon and, less regularly, the planets and asteroids.

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