The Half Moon

The moon now has its strangest appearance. Several nights this week the moon will be in a lunar phase, the only one whose shape is not universally known. Everyone can identify a crescent or half or the full moon. But now we have a gibbous moon. That's the phase fatter than half but smaller than full.

The mayors of the tri-cities are on board of an initiative to try to keep the Half Moon replica ship docked locally on the Hudson River.Built in 1989 by…