Comment by pjc50
14 hours ago
The strange thing is that there's only visualizations and no photographs! It's not like it's difficult to find the moon to take photos of, nor the sunset.
Or is this a variant of the "counterintuitive" long shadows of mountains at sunrise/sunset? e.g. https://www.fox13seattle.com/weather/skies-erupt-in-color-du... shadow from underneath the cloud layer.
I'm sure I've seen a picture of the long downwards shadow of a mountain on a desert or plain taken from the top with the sun behind the photographer, but the search seems to be sufficiently AI poisoned now :(
I think you're looking for crepuscular rays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepuscular_rays
A spectacular phenomenon for sure, and I suppose loosely related to lunar phases by virtue of the fact that they both require a very distant source of illumination.
Beautiful picture of Mt Rainier!
I'm sure there are other places that have similar phenomenon, but Mauna Kea often casts great shadows. Here's one with the moon in the cast shadow on the cloud layer below.
https://twanight.org/gallery/inside-the-shadow-of-mauna-kea/