Our Moon ...

... just over two days short of full. (An internet site tells me 95% of the the surface is visible. )

For the curious, the moon is in synchronous rotation with the earth, which means we always see the same side of it (more or less-there's a bit of wobble). The far side only became known through photographs by the lunar missions beginning in 1959. In the late 1960's the features on that side were given official names by the International Astronomical Union--including an odd-shaped crater called Van de Graaff, after my father.

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