Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2022 July 25 [2]The featured image shows an orange sky over water with a very faint, slight crescent Moon in the sky. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Find the New Moon Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Mohamad Soltanolkotabi Explanation: Can you find the Moon? This usually simple task can be quite difficult. Even though the Moon is above your horizon half of the time, its [4]phase can be anything from crescent to full. The featured image was taken in late May from [5]Sant Martí d'Empúries, [6]Spain, over the [7]Mediterranean Sea in the early morning. One reason [8]you can't find this moon is because it is very near to its [9]new phase, when very little of the half illuminated by [10]the Sun is visible to the Earth. Another reason is because this moon is [11]near the horizon and so seen through a long path of [12]Earth's atmosphere -- a path which [13]dims the already faint crescent. Any [14]crescent moon is only visible near the direction the Sun, and so only locatable near sunrise of sunset. The Moon [15]runs through all of its [16]phases in a month ([17]moon-th), and this month the thinnest [18]sliver of a crescent -- a new moon -- will occur in three days. Tomorrow's picture: noctilucent comet __________________________________________________________________ [19]< | [20]Archive | [21]Submissions | [22]Index | [23]Search | [24]Calendar | [25]RSS | [26]Education | [27]About APOD | [28]Discuss | [29]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [30]Robert Nemiroff ([31]MTU) & [32]Jerry Bonnell ([33]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [34]Specific rights apply. [35]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [36]ASD at [37]NASA / [38]GSFC, [39]NASA Science Activation & [40]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2207/FindTheMoon_soltanolkotabi_1500.jpg 3. mailto: msoltanolkotabi at gmail dot com 4. https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-phases/en/ 5. https://youtu.be/SaCuz9HwYfo 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea 8. https://i.imgflip.com/11a4ul.jpg 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_moon 10. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/in-depth/ 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210711.html 12. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/science/atmosphere-layers2.html 13. https://opg.optica.org/ao/fulltext.cfm?uri=ao-3-10-1135&id=13535 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210725.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220201.html 16. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/676/phases-of-the-moon/ 17. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/month 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210429.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220724.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 23. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 28. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=220725 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220726.html 30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 31. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 32. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 33. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 35. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 36. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/ 38. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 39. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 40. http://www.mtu.edu/