Hi group here are a few new Moons. Taken with a etx 125 and a sac 7 ccd camera. All are avi's of 30 sec. at 1/125 of a sec. processed in registax 3 and cleaned up in adobe photoshop 6.0 hope you enjoy Paul.

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Your typical excellent photos Paul. Keep up the great work!

Great - and good to know the term 'new moon' here is really used for a new moon by at least one person. Looking at various western almanacs etc has been generally confusing for their use of the term for the day or two before, in fact what should be termed no moon, or the dark moon, since that is when an eclipse can occur; however I suspect they did use 'new moon' to connote no moon.

Your definition of New Moon is a colloquial one, not a scientific one. Every astronomical definition of New Moon that I've ever seen is the Moon at the start (day 0) of a new lunation when the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun in eclipitc longitude and the near side is not illuminated, and is therefore invisible.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/...on/Phases.shtml

http://stardate.org/resources/astroglossar...ml#lunar_phases

http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/Glo...gloss_m-r.shtml

Dave Mitsky

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