{"id":2464,"date":"2019-05-06T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T08:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2019-05-06T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:39:05","slug":"thin-crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/thin-crescent-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot an extremely thin crescent Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the 6th of May, Bank Holiday Monday, an extremely thin crescent Moon should be visible very low down in the western sky just as the sky gets dark.<\/p>\n<p>Look towards the West at about 19:50 UT (20:50 BST) and you should be able to see something like the picture below.<\/p>\n<p>The thin crescent is only 3.8% illuminated, with the dark portion of the Moon strongly lit by earthshine, as soon as the sky gets dark enough to see it.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon will only be about 11 degrees above the horizon at this time.<\/p>\n<p>So get yourself a good western horizon and clouds permitting, let&#8217;s see see if you can spot this very young 1.8 day old Moon.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon will have set by 21h 11m UT (22h 11m BST).<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2468 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506-1024x612.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506-600x359.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506-210x126.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Moon-BankHolMonday-20190506.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the 6th of May, Bank Holiday Monday, an extremely thin crescent Moon should be visible very low down in the western sky just as the sky&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Spot an extremely thin crescent Moon - Star-Gazing","description":"On Monday the 6th of May, Bank Holiday Monday, an extremely thin crescent Moon should be visible very low down in the western sky just as the sky gets dark. Loo"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}