Earth-shine

New Moon in April 2018 - The Crescent Moon directly illuminated by the Sun and the remainder of the nearside illuminated by sunlight reflected by the Earth - 127 mm. Meade Apo Refractor and the Canon 600D DSLR. credit: Pip Stakkert

"Each month for a few days the Moon presents as an illuminated crescent and the remainder of the Moon's nearside is illuminated by Earth-shine - sunlight reflected by our planet. Although this can be viewed without any optical aid, photographing this effect is difficult because of the vast difference in luminance between the crescent and the disc". - Kurt Thrust, acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.