My quest: to see the crescent moon the day before and the day after the new moon.

This is something I'd really like to do. I was hoping this week I'd be able to but I couldn't even see it the day before the new moon. Perhaps the trees covered the thin moon. I hope one day to achieve this goal of mine.

Thin crescent Moon

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The Moon basically follows the ecliptic, the same path traveled by the Sun and planets. From mid-northern latitudes in late summer and fall, the ecliptic tilts upward at a very shallow from the sunset horizon, so thin crescents barely escape the solar glow and are difficult or impossible to see.

How did they find me?

Long before the Internet I was located by the FBI and pulled out of my place of employment to talk with an agent outside the building. How on earth did they find me? In a city I lived in at the time I was in the apartment of some people I didn't know well and that was it. I don't know if they were communists or even their names now, or anything about them really. From there I moved back to the Bay Area and then spent 13 months in Europe. I returned to the Bay Area and found a job. I was 22. This has always astounded me that an obscure person such as myself could be tracked down for having associated with these people at some sort of party at their apartment.