Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain

Explanation: This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun , and a crescent moon , when only a sliver of the Moon's face is lit. When more than half of the Moon is illuminated, though, but still short of full illumination, the phase is called gibbous . Rarely seen in television and movies, gibbous moon s are quite common in the actual night sky. The featured image was taken in Jämtland , Sweden near the end of 2018 October. That gibbous moon turned, in a few days, into a crescent moon, and then a new moon , then back to a crescent, and a few days past that, back to gibbous. Setting up to capture a picturesque gibbous moonscape, the photographer was quite surprised to find an airplane, surely well in the foreground, appearing to fly past it.

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