Good Morning Moon

Yesterday, the Moon was New . But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn . Above the city of Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, this simple snapshot found the waning Moon's sunlit crescent just before sunrise. But also never wandering far from the Sun in Earth's sky , inner planets Venus and Mercury shared the cold morning skyview . In the foreground are the historic city's tower and castle with ruins from the 10th century.