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Extreme Crescents In Infrared

Martin Elsässer dissolves the Danjon limit with his innovative imaging method:
http://www.mondatlas.de/other/martin...cent_june.html


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Yikes is right.
The technique even allows limb detection at age zero.

Who will be the first to image a New Moon?


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Infrared works pretty well bringing out faint crescents against the sunlit sky. I tried something similar (although without the baffle) last year when Venus was 6 hours from inferior conjunction.
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