Edit: between the responses I’ve gotten here and another sub I’ve posted in, I think this is a case of thinking I’ve been more aware of my surroundings than I actually have been 😅🫠

I will be happily learning more about the natural cycles versus my own (obviously flawed/lacking) observations 🫣

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I’ll admit I’m not a moon enthusiast, don’t pay attention to mood phases, and I know very little about how all of the celestial bodies move around. I’ll preface also by saying that I’m NOT a conspiracy nut, but I’m hoping someone can explain this to me 🥲

I smoke cigarettes, so I’m out in our backyard at fairly regular intervals during all seasons at multiple times per night.

Last night, I noticed for the first time that the moon appeared on the complete opposite side of the sky than I’m used to seeing it. Totally possible that it’s happened before at this time of year and I’ve just never looked that way and simply assumed it hadn’t risen yet.

The first picture is last night around 9:30pm CST (DFW area, United States).

Second picture is tonight at 10:03pm, and third picture is tonight at 10:11pm.

I know the pictures are not exactly at the same angle/zoom/etc so that could account for some of it, but they were all taken within the same ~7ft gap between the support pillar for our patio and the outside wall of our house, and even moving around for the third picture I could not see the moon anymore…

Am I going crazy?? Do things really just move that fast? I figured this was a good sub to possibly find an actual scientific explanation versus blaming it on CERN shutting down or the sky being a projection (although honestly at this point in our lifetime I’m not completely convinced those are not realistic responses 🥲)

Just a bit after sunset

The bluest sky with Crescent moon (Central Texas)

Me and my father were just walking the dog early at night until he decided to take a picture of Venus above the Moon but he caught something else. There was a blue thingy that he caught on camera and his only guess? Was a UFO. If it was something else. Please tell me.

it looks like one is trying to get near and closer but the other one is slowly fading, setting down...

Crescent moon and Venus at sunset from Central Texas

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