A going down crooked moon sweeps across the eastern skyline in the hours between sundown and midnight. It is by full at present . . . Coming along to a lesser degree full but to a higher degree half illuminated.
What can I tell on a going down crooked moon? Just that it can astonish you if you chance to be out recently in the evening. It ascends spookily some hours after sundown, radiating red as if a full moon once it’s almost in the skyline. Sometimes it appears as if a malformed ringer of a full moon.
Since it ascends lately at nighttime, the going down crooked moon motivates people to begin saying, “Where's the moon? I searched for it the other night and I could not see it.” It also starts a blizzard of doubts watching the moon on the day. If it ascends late at nighttime, you know the going down crooked moon has to set after aurora. As a matter of fact, in the few days later full moon often is seen as going down crooked moon in the west in early break of day, drifting versus the blanch blue sky.