A brand new crescent moon

Coconuts · Post by **Coconuts** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:17 pm

After sunset this evening, a friend who is helping us with projects at Plumeria spotted a razor-thin crescent moon, a mere 36 hours after the new moon. My tripod-mounted DSLR utterly refused to cooperate due to the dim light, but my point and shoot Canon S110 proved more cooperative. The photos below are braced but hand-held, and don't really do it justice; the views in the telescope were really beautiful, and I don't think that I ever have seen a thinner crescent moon.

All the best,

Kevin

: Crescent wide

: Crescent zoom

lprof · Post by **lprof** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:28 pm

Thank you; those are very lovely views!

liamsaunt · Post by **liamsaunt** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:20 am

Beautiful! I love those Gifft Hill views.

ski2play · Post by **ski2play** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:09 am

Sweet, nice pics!

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