Assertion: moon's crescent | /r/HasProperty | visible
Facets:
value: at sunset
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the sky
type: LOCATION
value: faintly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: This thin waxing crescent is briefly and faintly visible as the Moon gets lower in the westerly sky after sunset.
text: Although this word properly means ‘new moon,’ it is commonly used as an equivalent to our word ‘month’ because the month began when the thin crescent of the new moon was first visible at sunset.
text: In the period covered by this study the Babylonian calendar year was composed of lunar months, which began when the thin crescent of the new moon was first visible in the sky at sunset.