April 9, 2008

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Is It Really There?

LPOD-Apr9-08.jpg
image by Pete Lawrence

Visually sighting very thin crescents is an endless competition, with naked eye observers and imagers striving to achieve a nearly impossible goal. Here is the latest contender with the least Moon published in an LPOD. Pete writes:

After a freezing session on the beach, I have finally managed to beat my previous personal best (22h45m) thin crescent Moon and catch the April 6th 15h13m crescent just before it sunk below a cloud deck. It never fails to amaze me as to just how hard these really thin crescents are to catch. With hands like blocks of ice I had a smile similar to the thin crescent.

I guess the last line means that the smile was hardly there.

Chuck Wood

Technical Details
On image

Related Links
Pete's website


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