ASTRO: Moon tonight 3-19-2007

23hrs and 10 minutes old and I could barely see it in the camera. Not a lot
of craters to be seen either. This is the youngest Moon I have ever seen.
The Moon set 1 hr and 7 mins after sunset. 70mm refractor and a CP4500 @
100asa for 1/4sec.


Joe

J McBride wrote:
23hrs and 10 minutes old and I could barely see it in the camera. Not a lot
of craters to be seen either. This is the youngest Moon I have ever seen.
The Moon set 1 hr and 7 mins after sunset. 70mm refractor and a CP4500 @
100asa for 1/4sec.


Joe
That darned moon is returning already. I haven't had one night that was
cloud free this cycle. I have a few hours tonight then storms move
back. Still have fair seeing even after a cold front. Spring comes
tomorrow and it snowed today.

Anyway nice moon even if it portends brighter skies coming.

Rick
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In article , J McBride wrote:
23hrs and 10 minutes old and I could barely see it in the camera.

Didn't one of the editorial staff at Sky & Telescope get the
moon at something under 12 hours old a few years ago. ISTR Hawaii
played a part in the observing plan due to clean eastern horizons and
being 6 hours (solar) behind the US East coast.

This is the youngest Moon I have ever seen.

There's a challenge.
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Aidan Karley
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:05 GMT, but posted later.

In article , Rick Johnson
wrote:
Spring comes
tomorrow and it snowed today.

Spring came yesterday and it's likely to be snowing at the
weekend. Again.
I was having to repair some equipment up the derrick of an oil
rig up near Shetland (say, 60deg N) one June in the early 1990s and
went up there in bright sunshine, jeans and a teeshirt (which dates
it!); after getting hauled into position on a work platform, the snow
started for about 20 minutes. Lovely.

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Aidan Karley, FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:08 GMT, but posted later.