Earthshine or " The Da Vinci Glow"

Have you seen the Da Vinci Glow today?

Astronomers named this visual effect “the Da Vinci glow” after Leonardo Da Vinci, who first figured it out.

It consists of a faint illumination of the dark part of the Moon when it is a thin crescent, caused by sunlight reflected from the Earth, also known as earthlight. Forming a triangle, the planets Jupiter,Venus and the Moon will be the brightest light in the night sky.They can be seen with the naked eye.