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Captain Kirk
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    I was driving home from work shortly after 7:00 a.m. today and was treated to a view of the setting moon about 30% eclipsed and looking like a fat crescent moon.  It was within a few degrees of the horizon.  I got one photo with my cell phone.  I selected a gap between a couple buildings to try and return to (with a real camera) and take better photos.  But, by the time I got home and back I couldn't find it.  By 7:30 I had driven around to several high spots in NW Rochester and was unable to relocate our satellite.
     
    There was some haze developing in the West and I assumed this obscured the moon rather than it having set already.  Because Moon Phase Pro on my phone quotes a Set time of 7:35 a.m. I think that Luna was below all but the clearest horizons at reasonable approximations of my latitude and longitude by 7:30.

    Kirk