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Re seeing a ‘full’ moon near an image of the Sun. I’ll try to hazard an explanation. Currently, we should be in a New Moon phase in the Northern Hemisphere. Believe it or not the Moon does receive some illumination from sunlight reflected from the Earth just as we get light reflected from the Moon. While it is true that we can’t see the Moon easily during a ‘new moon’ it is because the Moon is lost in the glare of the Sun, it may be the program being used to view CMEs is very sensitive and picks up the Moon as “full” from it reflecting Earth’s light.

It helps to remember that although we see what seems only a sliver of the Moon its full round shape is still ‘visible’- just not fully illuminated. I’m guessing the CME program is just super sensitive.