Lunar Moon

5. the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from the earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.
6. On each successive morning, a waning crescent moon will show us less and less of its lighted portion, or day side.
7. from Earth, it looks half-illuminated, like half a pie.

1. The opposite half of the Moon is illuminated compared to the First Quarter.
2. when it is in the phase in which its visible surface area is getting smaller.
3. a moon that gets more sunlight on it as the days go by.
4. opposite the sun in its orbit around Earth.
6. a thin fraction of the moon's day side, or illuminated side, and a larger fraction of the moon's night side, the side of the moon submerged in the moon's own shadow.