Crescent Moonrise - A Timelapse!

Had the opportunity to capture the thin crescent moon rising from the Eastern horizons of Lahore.
A waning crescent moon or an old moon is always seen in the early hours before dawn. On each successive morning, a waning crescent moon will show us less and less of its lighted portion, or day side. Each day, it rises nearer to the sunrise.

The illuminated side of a waning crescent moon always points eastward, or in the direction of sunrise. What’s interesting is that the lit side of waning crescent points in the direction of the moon’s daily motion relative to the background sky and that direction is also east.

It's always fun to follow the waning crescent day by day, as it inches into the dawn glare. I created this timelapse by taking multiple images in succession with a gap of 30 sec in between each next image and then combined them together to get this perfectly aligned timelapse. You can notice how the color of the crescent changes from orange to yellow and then normal colors as it emerges out of the thick atmosphere over the horizon.

Canon 1300D
Samyang 135mm f2.2 lens

ISO 400, f5.6, 1.6 seconds
26 images taken in succession with a 30 sec gap.
Blended in PS 2023