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A very short Sun-Moon lunar
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jul 11, 12:35 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jul 11, 12:35 -0700
Here's one to beat:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/The-Ultimate-New-Moon-Sighting-214970991.html
A French photographer captured the Moon when its "razor-thin" limb was only 4.4 degrees from the Sun's limb, right at the moment of New Moon (same ecliptic longitude as the Sun).
-FER
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