That's not hard to create in the Teton Mountains of Wyoming. After taking this exposure, my friend, Allen and I set up my small Questar telescope and observed climbers walking across sun-drenched ice fields. Earthshine results when light reflected from earth faintly illuminates the nightside of the lunar hemisphere facing us. It is best seen when the moon is a thin crescent. Once you've seen one lunar eclipse, you've seen them all.
Every event is different.
The twilight wedge can be seen in the direction opposite to the setting sun. It is the earth's shadow being projected into space. The shadow continues to rise after sunset, eventually disappearing against the inky vault of approaching darkness. The area is a surreal combination of mesas, sentinel buttes, and isolated pinnacles, deep red rock contrasted against saturated blue skies, scorched by the sun and serenaded by drying winds. In a way it is the best and the worst of what land could possibly have to offer.