That's a pity, Siren,
because the view tonight was beautiful, too. I really had fun with the moon... on my way home from work, waiting for the train, I was scanning the skies strainedly before the sun set but didn't find the moon. A minute later when I was casting just a casual glance up I had it right in my view, ghostly in the bright skies and still very slender.
Later on in the city, waiting for my tram
I managed to put myself in such a position that the lunar crescent was right on top of a church tower, creating an alternate version of German history.
That was an alignment so delicate that I could watch the moon gliding away within less than a minute as Earth just kept on spinning.
Finally, as the sky darkened, the earth-lit nightside of the moon became visible. Because the crescent was still pretty much horizontally aligned - unusual for my latitude - I managed to hide it behind a distant roof so only the nightside was sticking out. I still saw it, thus proving that the earthshine was not merely an optical illusion created in my brain but that it was really really there, the lunar landscapes lit by the almost-full Earth in the lunar skies.
Cheers!
Markus
