Sentence examples for waxing crescent from inspiring English sources

Thus a waxing crescent follows the new moon, and a waning crescent precedes the new moon.

They worked at night, preferably under cloud cover to further darken the waxing crescent moon.

One summer night in Washington, I saw a waxing crescent moon stained a red darker than blood.

The moon goes through the phases new, waxing crescent, first quarter,waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent, and back to new.

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While a standard Gregorian calendar is based on the movement of the sun, an Islamic calendar depends on a visual sighting of a hilal, or waxing crescent moon, on the 29th or 30th day of each lunar month.

For example, if you searched for "Isaac Newton birth," you got Newton's birth date (December 25, 1642; you also learned that the moon was in the waxing-crescent phase that day).

David Talbot ("Search Me," July/August 2009) describes a Wolfram Alpha search revealing that on the day of Sir Isaac Newton's birth, December 25 , 1642 the moon was in the waxing-crescent phase.

Galileo's other early discoveries retain their allure: the mountains of the Moon, Venus as a waxing and waning crescent, Jupiter with its four little companion moons.

The Siva crescent moon waxes overhead, the shadows lengthen, the cold creeps in.

Still, astronomers concur that whatever the reason, yes, you should look at the moon early and often, whether it's waxing or waning, gibbous or crescent, and appreciate the many features that set our moon apart from the other 100-plus moons of the solar system, and even celebrate our loyal satellite as a planet in its own right.