Waning crescent moon a spectacular sight

Seacoast Media Group photographer Deb Cram captured this image of a waning crescent moon this morning.

According to www.earthsky.org, a waning crescent moon, also known as an old moon, is seen in the east before dawn. The moon at this phase has moved entirely around in its in its orbit of Earth. Because the moon is nearly on a line with the Earth and sun again, the day hemisphere of the moon is facing mostly away from Earth. From Earth, we see only a slender fraction of the moon's day side: a crescent moon. Each morning before dawn, because the moon is moving eastward in orbit around Earth, according to the website, the moon appears closer to the sunrise glare. We see less and less of the moon's day side, and thus the crescent in the east before dawn appears thinner each day, the website says.